Standaert, Samuel; Ronsse, Stijn; Vandermarliere, Benjamin - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2014
This paper studies the structure and the evolution of worldwide trade integration from 1880 up to 1995. Starting from historical trade and GDP data we use a state-space model to construct a bilateral historical trade index. This index is subsequently used to study globalization and the distance...