What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …

, Europe, and Oceania for the period from 1870 to 2000 and demonstrate an overriding role for declining trade costs in the pre-World … War I trade boom. In contrast, for the post-World War II trade boom we identify changes in output as the dominant force …

pre- World War I, the interwar, and the post-war periods, this paper finds that the Frankel-Romer result is robust to …

In the public imagination globalization's adverse effects have loomed large, contributing significantly to the backlash … gains from trade, and it becomes larger relative to net gains from trade in the advanced stages of globalization …

(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods …

increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …

world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …