world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …

membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

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 …

globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a …