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Is globalization today really different than globalization a hundred years ago?

Bordo, Michael D.; Eichengreen, Barry; Irwin, Douglas A. - 1999

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

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Riding the wave of trade : explaining the rise of labor regulation in the golden age of globalization

Huberman, Michael; Meissner, Christopher M. - 2009

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Trade costs in the first wave of globalization

Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - 2006

"We use a new measure of total trade costs at the bilateral country level to examine the change in international trade integration between 1870 and 1913. Trade costs are lowest amongst the most developed countries and highest in the peripheral and poor countries. On average, our measure declined...