economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We … study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all countries with available data extending back to 1870. Using the … gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of belligerent nations and neutrals …

due to a growth in “Baconian knowledge” and international trade. Simulations show that the model does a good job of …

-biased technological change was due to a growth in ``Baconian knowledge'' and international trade. Simulations show that the model does a …

economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We … study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all countries with available data extending back to 1870. Using the … gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of belligerent nations and neutrals …

Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …

Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …

Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates.  We construct a three-region model of the world in which … find that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s …

supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations … have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … for 1760 and 1850. Neither claim is supported. Trade was vital for the progress of the industrial revolution; but it was …