This paper uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World … controlling for novel measures of the changing world economic environment. Rejecting alternative explanations based on changing … head in a world environment characterized by a moderately higher level of generalized tariff protection. We confirm the …

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …

The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …-skilled is associated with more pro-globalization attitudes in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the … sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More …

with undervalued exchange rates will lead to fewer antidumping filings. Examining the universe of U.S. manufacturing firms …, we find that antidumping petition filers are more internationally engaged than non-filing peers, but conduct less related … undervalued currencies significantly decrease (increase) the likelihood of U.S. antidumping petitions. Our study highlights the …

evidence that antidumping protection increases market power …

We study the consequences of protectionism for macroeconomic fluctuations. First, using high-frequency trade policy … VARs show that protectionism acts as a supply shock, causing output to fall and inflation to rise in the short run …. Moreover, protectionism has at best a small positive effect on the trade balance. Second, we build a small open economy model …