This paper describes two databases dealing with world bilateral trade flows: the World Trade Database (WTDB) assembled …

The effects of geography and productivity on the global pattern of production are captured here in a specific factors … gravity model. Simple enough for sharp results, the model is yet rich enough to contain the high dimensional productivity … frictions in production and distribution of a many country world. The starting point is the international incidence of …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory suggests that globalization will have very different implications for … differed greatly across countries: both trade and migration (but not capital flows) made the rich New World more unequal, and … the (less rich) Old World more equal. The evidence on the links between within-country inequality and globalization in the …

complexity and productivity, and technological sophistication is complementary to worker ability. We study the co …

Monte Carlo based robustness test is proposed which compares the elasticity of domestic productivity with respect to foreign … larger and explain more of the variation in productivity across countries than if true' bilateral trade patterns are employed …

the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects … channels. First, trade raises productivity levels because producers gain access to new imported varieties. Second, increases in … that aggregates these micro gains to obtain an estimate of trade on productivity growth for each country. We find that in …

theory and history to be consistent for a wide range of underlying productivity shocks … and productivity. A model with monopolistic competition, a continuum-of-goods, and endogenous tradability allows for …