knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

economy that is open to international trade. Having a workable open-economy framework allows us to address the question … whether globalization makes it easier or harder for a country to escape from a poverty trap. Our model gives a definite answer … at the firm level is impeded by tougher competition in the open economy …

regional model of the world economy, in which energy technical change is endogenous. The focus is on disembodied energy Ramp … different regions of the world? Does the speed of innovation increase? Or do free-riding incentives prevail and international …

distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; both advances in financial integration and globalization are associated … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …