has any effect on growth. We close by noting that recent attempts at integration have very different starting points and …

This paper deals with the effects of European integration in the EC and EFTA on economic growth. Base regressions … suggest that EC and EFTA memberships do in fact have a positive and significant effect on economic growth, and that there is … only affect resource allocation, but also long-run growth rates. This conclusion is strengthened by the fact that we obtain …

towards investment in education and growth in output per capita, a significant portion of the gains from trade in non …-industrial nations was channelled towards population growth. …

sustained differences in population growth and income levels across countries. In industrial economies international trade …

output and achieve growth through extreme specialization in response to shifting comparative advantage. …

gains from trade have been directed towards investment in education and growth in income per capita, whereas a significant … portion of these gains in less developed economies have been channelled towards population growth. Cross-country regressions …

trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … contrast is robust to a large range of parameter perturbations. Biased technological change and population growth were key in …

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other … barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If … treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and intermediate goods, did lead to faster GDP growth, and by a margin …

the context of two partial equilibrium endogenous growth models. In our first model, the scale of fickle outside … investment funds traces out a mean-variance tradeoff for the growth rate of the economy. In particular, the volatility of these … regulation of outside investment may increase growth. Our second model involves increasing returns and multiple equilibria. In …