World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …

and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …

, Europe, and Oceania for the period from 1870 to 2000 and demonstrate an overriding role for declining trade costs in the pre-World … War I trade boom. In contrast, for the post-World War II trade boom we identify changes in output as the dominant force …