With increasing sophistication, economists have been estimating gravity equations for five decades. Robust evidence … ict forged a world economy in which neither tastes nor information are homogeneously distributed. Cultural difference and …

World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the … globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well …

There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First there are the world history scholars … important events in recorded history. Second, there is the view that the world economy was still fragmented before the 19th … like Andre Gunder Frank who attach globalization ‘big bang' significance to the dates 1492 (Christopher Columbus stumbles …

, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of …

that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …

research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …

have argued that trade makes war less likely, yet World War I erupted at a time of unprecedented globalization. This paper …