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 …

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 …

In examining the effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the amounts of Aid for Trade (AfT) that … accrue to developing countries, Lee et al. (2015) (The World Economy, 38, 2015 and 1462) have found that developing country … members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) received higher AfT flows than non-WTO developing members. The present paper …