The typical narrative regarding the evolution of world trade prior to World War II refers to a secular rise starting …, representing 90% of world GDP, for the period from 1870 to 1949. Our estimates combine historical import and export figures with … of a dramatic rise and fall of world trade over this period. Yet, they indicate that this rise and fall was …

, Europe, and Oceania for the period from 1870 to 2000 and demonstrate an overriding role for declining trade costs in the pre-World … War I trade boom. In contrast, for the post-World War II trade boom we identify changes in output as the dominant force …

, Europe, and Oceania for the period from 1870 to 2000 and demonstrate an overriding role for declining trade costs in the pre-World … War I trade boom. In contrast, for the post-World War II trade boom we identify changes in output as the dominant force …

classified into World-I, World-II and World-III countries. KOF, the Business Cycle Research Institute in the Swiss Federal …

Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the …

international trade has either begun to decrease or is about to decrease due to changes in the structure of the world economy. This … 2014 to 2016, when world petroleum prices decreased the dollar value of international exports …

decoupling between the world's two largest economies. Results based on gravity model regressions with high-dimensional fixed … other hand, we find no evidence of an increased regionalisation of world trade since the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic or … the war in Ukraine. Therefore, our results suggest that near-shoring strategies did not have a large impact on world trade …

industrialzation in Europe and later on in North America changed the pattern of demand in the world market. The two World wars and … Great Depression had shifted the economic power center from Europe to USA. The major political division of the world after … Second World War was an essentially that between the west (led by the United States) and the east (led by the soviet …