frictions in production and distribution of a many country world. The starting point is the international incidence of … reduce sectoral skill premia. Bigger sellers' incidence by country (sector) reduces equilibrium shares of world (national …

goods within countries, much of which makes economic sense. Theory looms large in our survey, providing interpretation and … and interpret gravity theory properly and to handle aggregation appropriately …

We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … hosted 11% of the world's poor in 1960. It hosted 66% of them in 1998. We estimate nine indexes of income inequality implied … by our world distribution of income. All of them show substantial reductions in global income inequality during the 1980s …

study of PPP-adjusted estimates of GDP around the world between 1992 and 2010. First, we find that while market exchange … optimal. Using data from the Penn World Tables, we find that, indeed, it is optimal to only use the latest price data, and …

actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9\% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

Penn World Tables and of the World Development Indicators better estimate true income per capita. We find that revisions of …-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World Development … Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as are any recent vintages of the Penn World Tables …