-country statistical studies that openness is associated with higher growth rates. Rodriguez and Rodrik show that openness simply in the … economic growth interact, despite a number of multi-country case studies utilizing comparable analytical frameworks, numerous … econometric studies using large cross-country data sets, and important theoretical advances in growth theory. This paper briefly …

the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …Starting with Romer [1987] and Rivera-Batiz-Romer [1991] economists have been able to model how trade enhances growth … that aggregates these micro gains to obtain an estimate of trade on productivity growth for each country. We find that in …

array of openness measures play a major role in the successful growth performance of the Asia-Pacific region, a key channel …This paper examines the relationship between openness, trade, and migration in the Asia-Pacific region during the post …-1970 period. Conventional reduced-form empirical-growth specifications are augmented by an appeal to structural modelling …

productivity growth. It is found that countries that are more open to the rest of the world have experienced faster growth in total …

Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In the two decades since … recent work on this issue: cross-country regressions focusing on within-country growth, synthetic control methods on specific … productivity. A consistent finding is that trade reforms have a positive impact on economic growth, on average, although the effect …

This paper deals with the role of trade regimes in determining economic performance and growth in the developing … countries. The policy and empirical literatures on trade orientation and economic growth are critically reviewed; it is argued …; (ii) continuous and (iii) comparable across countries. A growth model that relates trade orientation to the ability to …

numerous empirical studies that claim to have found a positive effect of openness on growth. Two issues have been at the core … things given, TFP growth is faster in more open economies. The regressions reported here are robust to the use of openness … controversy continues today, even as the world is experiencing an unprecedented period of trade liberalization, and in spite of …

We examine the growth promoting roles of R&D, international R&D spillovers, and trade in a world econometric model. A … countries. Our simulations suggest that R&D, R&D spillovers, and trade play important roles in boosting growth in industrial and …