based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

, a process that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world … world financial markets also reduced the cheap capital advantage of the leaders. However, ever-cheaper labor was not a …

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 …

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …

What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world … distances between populations, and document how such distances, relative to the world's technological frontier, act as barriers …