This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the … influenced by geographical and political factors; after all, proximity matters. To explain how mechanism of globalization changed …

globalization and 'aid for trade', and this is one of the first papers to provide an economic rationale. I exploit the 1967-1975 war …

question whether the world has become smaller in terms of economic distance. Instead of focussing on the transmission of single … results for the most recent period suggest that a uniform shock to output volatility in the world economy roughly …

We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between … globalization, integration and technology transfers on European regions. The results suggest that most regions have significantly … benefited from globalization measured by increasing trade openness and FDI. In a non-linear growth convergence model the growth …