leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns …, the cross-sectional behaviour of the world economy is similar to that of existing exogenous growth models. Cross … exhibit conditional convergence as in the Solow-Ramsey model. The dispersion of the world income distribution is determined by …

, it is possible to identify a variety of channels through which trade affects the evolution of world income and its …

We estimate the effect of international trade on average labour productivity across countries. Our empirical approach … empirical grounds. In contrast to the marginally significant and non-robust effects of trade on productivity found previously … productivity. Our finding is that trade works through labour efficiency, while institutional quality works through physical and …

, costly adoption and spillovers from the world technology frontier. Despite its parsimonious parametrization, our empirical …

human history induced growth theorists to advance an alternative theory that captures in a single unified framework the … distinct regimes. Unified growth theory reveals the underlying micro foundations that are consistent with the growth process … over the entire history of the human species, enhancing the confidence in the viability of the theory, its predictions and …