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-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …
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Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows 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...
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labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …
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What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
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What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …
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in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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. Late nineteenth century trade globalization may have helped generate the "first wave" of democratization. Between 1920 and … 1938 countries more exposed to international trade were less likely to become authoritarian. Finally, our post-World War II …
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The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One …, IMF, and World Bank meetings demanding global labor standards. Comparing the claims made in this debate with the outcomes … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …
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This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on …
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Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization …
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