-proportions trade vi) the world trade-to-output ratio increases over time. I argue that standard economic theories ignore the vast …

-proportions trade vi) the world trade-to-output ratio increases over time. I argue that standard economic theories ignore the vast …

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 country´s regulatory framework are …. Therefore, the two potential determinants to growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the …

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 …

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

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …-abundant East Asia traded more heavily with the U.S. and thus engineered faster growth than did land-abundant Latin America. Factor …-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in …

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 …

processes of trade and growth. Indeed, industrial policy seems to be back in fashion—or, at least, talking about it is. But a … renewed “activism” by government in the trade and growth agenda need not mean a return to old-style policies of import … private sector–led growth. This note discusses the renewed role of government in trade and growth policy from the …

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