The Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA will increase import competition for some forest product industries in Alabama …

This paper explores the growth implications of regional integration. From the theory, it identifies the ‘footprints …’ that such growth should leave in the data. It then checks the data on the four poor EU nations for such footprints. Prima … facie evidence for Ireland, Portugal and Spain support the notion that EU membership induced investment-led growth, but …

relationship between trade openness and growth. … bearing on their growth rates. The present paper analyses the hypothesis that the types of imported capital goods and the … sources of their origin matter for growth. We construct a new index that measures the level of knowledge embodied in a country …

using the System Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) approach. Trade and growth are usually positively correlated and capital … formation appears to be an important channel through which trade brings growth. There generally exists a positive relationship …For 106 countries over 1969-2004, this paper revisits the relationship between openness, education and economic growth …

potential and trade opportunities through regional integration. We analyze the implications of such opportunities using a … regional general equilibrium model. We find that growth in South Africa benefits the region’s lowincome countries through … decline of prices from increased production. Agricultural productivity growth, however, is necessary for low-income countries …

An empirical tradition in international trade seeks to establish whether the predictions of factor abundance theory … (differences in productivity, in returns to scale or in consumers’ preferences) help us to improve our estimation of trade patterns … in commodities. The results show that conventional factors are still important in determining trade structure although …

integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade poli - cy … under various scenarios including Uruguay Round imple - mentation, faster economic growth in China, reneging on the promised … phaseout of textile quotas, and APEC trade liberalization. The bilateral trade conse - quences in those scenarios highlight the …

factors like distance and size as well as policy factors such as industrial, fiscal and trade policy. Results emphasize the … benefits of domestic trade and local fiscal policy rationalization on the stabilization of output fluctuations. However, they … also identify international trade and local economic policy heterogeneity as growing centrifugal forces. …

According to the traditional theory of international trade, a gradual opening of trade teamed with migration would make …

The endogenous growth literature has stimulated empirical research into links between trade and growth in general and … is a public or private good in the donor and recipient countries, and include these in a dynamic panel model of growth … in the recipient. We also find that the level of trade is important in facilitating knowledge spillovers from donors to …