This article features a set of indicators designed to measure international economic integration and globalization. We analyze the degree of openness and the respective networks of connections-both direct and indirect-for each economy in our sample. Our indicators are based on network analysis...

One of the best-established empirical results in international economics is that bilateral trade decreases with distance, despite the reductions in the costs of trade brought about by globalization. This working paper proposes an explanation to this apparent contradiction (labeled as the...

How has the process of international economic integration advanced over the last four decades? What will the foreseeable future look like? This working paper attempts to answer this sort of question by considering some methods which have scarcely been used in the literature on globalization....