Munasinghe, Lalith; O'Flaherty, Brendan; Danninger, Stephan - In: Journal of Political Economy 109 (2001) 5, pp. 1132-1149
The past century and a quarter has seen frequent improvements in track and field records. We attempt to estimate what proportion of the speed of record breaking is due to globalization (competitors from more countries) and what proportion is due to technological progress (better equipment and...
