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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
Jacks, David S. - 2010
What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759104
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Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization
Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - 2021
What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224437
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Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs
Jacks, David S. - 2010
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151143
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Trade, Variety, and Immigration
Bo, Chen - 2012
What are the gains from international trade? And how do immigrants influence this process? While economists have considered these questions before, particularly in the context of aggregate trade flows, there has been no work assessing the relation between immigration and international trade in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108248
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On the Death of Distance and Borders : Evidence from the Nineteenth Century
Jacks, David S. - 2010
In this paper, we investigate time-dependent border and distance effects in the nineteenth century and document clear declines in the importance of these variables through time. What this suggests, in light of the work for the post-1950 era, is that researchers might have correctly identified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151368
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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - 2021
world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224849
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Growth Accelerations
Hausmann, Ricardo; Pritchett, Lant; Rodrik, Dani - 2022
Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321621
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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth
McMillan, Margaret - 2011
Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities are a key driver of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123689
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration Since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764828
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Trade Blocs and Trade Wars During the Interwar Period
Jacks, David S. - 2019
work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870722