To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a … factor for explaining growth, while the importance of domestic spillovers is limited. The growth volatility is substantively …

equal-share property implies that, if economic policies are also largely harmonized across FIE members, the growth in any … that growth models of FIE members must embody the assumption of homogeneity of random growth processes across members …. Given its importance for our understanding of underlying growth mechanisms for such members, we empirically examine for …

it constraints the set of policies that can affect each member’s relative growth within an integrated economy. We …

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization … for the closer integration with Russia and the impact of this process on Belarus growth led us to the conclusion that the … conclusion is supported by the results of country-specific growth regressions and of a counterfactual free trade experiment via a …

In this paper we explore linkages between financial services tradeand growth. We offer aformalization of the argument … econometric exercise. Cross-country growth regressionspoint to a strong positive relationship between financial sectorcompetition … and financial sectoropenness, and between growth and financial sector competition. …