This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … output and global input output tables to construct the measures of trade openness, our empirical analysis covering 21 … countries, 30 industries and 15 years reveals that trade openness in terms of intermediate and capital goods lead to economic …

This paper looks at how the reputation of a monetary policy making committee is jointly determined with the reputations … of its individual members. I ask whether individuals ha ve more or less incentive to gain a reputation for being tough on …

I show how changes in competition affect the power of reputation to induce sellers to exert effort. The impact of …. To guide the empirical analysis, I develop a model of reputation where the relative number of hosts and guests affects … the value of building a reputation through effort. In this framework, more competition depresses hosts' profits and leads …