This paper pursues the comparison of economic integration today and pre 1914 for trade as well as finance, primarily 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...

"Emerging market multinationals (EMNCs) can become successful global players across a wide spectrum of industries, as demonstrated by companies such as the Brazilian airplane manufacturer Embraer, the Mexican bakery Bimbo, the Russian IT firm Kaspersky Labs, the Indian conglomerate Tata Group,...