-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …

of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook … trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward freer flows of ideas should be associated with a reduction in … conventional trade. The large quantitative effect from the flow of ideas is evident in the second half of the 20th century as the …

global trade. Using a new data set on the factor-intensity of traded goods at the industry level, we show that Chinese … for unskilled workers producing these goods in China. When the war ended, trade costs declined, leading to a rise in China …'s terms of trade and further growth in China's export sector. Difference-in-differences regression estimates show that World …

history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to … encourage a level playing field. The type of trade mattered as much as the volume. In the European core, states emulated the … labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …

ground for this question: freight rates fell on average by 50% while global trade increased 400% from 1870 to 1913. We … model. We also take the endogeneity of bilateral trade and freight rates seriously and propose an instrumental variables … late nineteenth century global trade boom. Rather, the most powerful forces driving the boom were those of income growth …

Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows … workers more than less educated workers. This paper extends a model of trade in differentiated goods to analyse the joint … phenomena of migration and trade in a world where countries use different skill-specific technologies and workers have different …

What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based … on a standard model of trade in differentiated goods to address this question. These trade costs gauge the difference … between observed bilateral trade and frictionless trade. They comprise tariffs, transportation costs and all other factors …

Starting with Romer [1987] and Rivera-Batiz-Romer [1991] economists have been able to model how trade enhances growth … through the creation and import of new varieties. In this framework, international trade increases economic output through two … channels. First, trade raises productivity levels because producers gain access to new imported varieties. Second, increases in …