This paper investigates the effects of globalization on aggregate productivity, output growth, and inflation. I present … nations are to trade. Globalization raises both the level and growth rate of aggregate productivity by allowing more …

attributes these either to globalization, or to skill-biased technology, or to a combination of the two. A transatlantic …

The aim of the Paper is to see whether individuals’ attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …-skilled are pro-globalization in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the sample being high-skilled has … a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More generally, an interaction term …

decisions, when the removal either of trade barriers or of restrictions on capital outflows/inflows (‘globalization’) allows … yields the relocation of the whole industry, autarchy is strictly better, in welfare terms, than ‘globalization’. It is only … when relocation is a dominant strategy for one (and only one) of the firms, that ‘globalization’ may be unambiguously …

There are two contrasting views of pre-19th century trade and globalization. First there are the world history scholars … like Andre Gunder Frank who attach globalization ‘big bang' significance to the dates 1492 (Christopher Columbus stumbles …