This paper sheds light on two problems in the Penn World Table (PWT) GDP estimates. First, we show that these estimates …

Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows … phenomena of migration and trade in a world where countries use different skill-specific technologies and workers have different …

This paper comments on five aspects of globalization: (1) the gains from international flows of goods and capital; (2 …

labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …

What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …

in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …

Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization …

What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …

the (less rich) Old World more equal. The evidence on the links between within-country inequality and globalization in the … the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b …) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for …