Productivity growth is slowing around the world. In 2014, according to the Conference Board's Total Economy Data Base …

A number of economic studies have used a proxy for world real economic activity derived from shipping costs. This … with world output, and ability to predict commodity prices. I conclude that measures derived from world industrial …

This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … and globalization. To reflect context, as defined by space (geography) and time (history), we control for the distance to … and globalization put forward by Eichengreen and Leblang (2008) for the period 1870-2000. Focusing on the more recent wave …

world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …

The Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rates from the 2011 round of the International Comparison Program (ICP) imply some … dramatic revisions to price levels and real incomes across the world. The paper tries to understand these changes. Domestic …