into persistent differences in economic development. Specifically, it establishes that pre-modern economic specialization … pre-modern economic specialization are associated with greater skill-biased occupational heterogeneity, economic …

that higher levels of intra-ethnic diversity were conducive to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings …

to economic specialization in the pre-modern era. The findings are robust to a host of geographical, institutional …

The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in … economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a countryś regulatory framework are …. Therefore, the two potential determinants to growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

Productivity in agriculture or services has long been understood as playing an important role in the growth of … manufacturing. In this paper we present a general equilibrium model in which manufacturing growth is stimulated by non … options for stimulating manufacturing growth: (1) a country imports more non-manufacturing goods from a foreign country with …

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been … provision of schooling are typically lower in an open than in a closed economy. Moreover, we find that, under openness to trade …, development is faster in a democratic system. We also endogenize the trade regime and demonstrate that, in political equilibrium …

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or … agriculture is driven by comparative advantage and non-homothetic preferences. Countries are integrated through trade but trade is … better fit to cross-sectional data on manufacturing shares than frameworks which ignore the role of trade costs or non …

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel …. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

Economists generally agree that free trade leads to economic growth. This proposition is supported both by theoretical … wrong, if free trade leads to superior growth, governments would have more resources to redistribute to the poor. It is … regarding the effects of trade liberalization on economic growth, suggesting that the standard policy prescriptions of the …