A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

greater exchange rate flexibility has not significantly altered the reserve holding behavior of the world's central banks …

We use textual analysis of earnings conference calls held by listed firms around the world to measure the amount of …

of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

climatic changes on economic activity throughout the world. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures …