trade intensity ratio increases between the countries. Geographical proximity and language similarities also turn out to be …

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

We map the relationship between products in global trade and the products a country exports as a network to devise a …

We estimate the effect of international trade on average labor productivity at the country level. Our empirical … approach relies on summary measures of trade that, we argue, are preferable on both theoretical and empirical grounds to the … one conventionally used. In contrast to the marginally significant and non-robust effects of trade on productivity found …

This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence … for trade as an independent factor of divergence. Hence, one cannot blame trade as such for the disappointing performance …

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 …

This paper examines the role that trade plays in economic development through the channel of technology transfer … between donor- and receiving countries. In this context, trade in (capital) goods allows technology import and improved input … decisions. Second, trade opens export markets, allowing learning-by-doing. Third and most importantly, trade increases the set …

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