, protectionism, and globalization. We find that preferences for open-market trade policies cannot be sufficiently explained by …-suited predictors for the substantial cross-regional variation in the support for globalization. Country specific narratives are …

The world economy in the last two decades is clearly marked by the integration of emerging countries in the … international division of labor. To better understand the "globalization" effect, it is helpful to analyze the pattern and structure … of world trade volume in the past, in order to draw conclusions for future development. An unobserved components model is …

% for the EU, by .5% for the United States, and by -.02% for the rest of the world relative to the status quo. However …