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Trade Orientation, Distortions and Growth in Developing Countries
Edwards, Sebastian - 2010
In this paper I use a cross country data set to analyze the relationship between trade orientation, trade distortions and growth. I first develop a simple endogenous growth model that emphasizes the process of technological absorption in small developing countries. According to this model...
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Market Access, Openness and Growth
Romalis, John - 2010
This paper identifies a causal effect of openness to international trade on growth. It does so by using tariff barriers of the United States as instruments for the openness of developing countries. Trade liberalization by a large trading partner causes an expansion in the trade of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760120
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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
Broda, Christian M. - 2010
through the creation and import of new varieties. In this framework, international trade increases economic output through two …
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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Getting Interventions Right : How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich
Rodrik, Dani - 2021
Most explanations of Korea's and Taiwan's economic growth since the early 1960s place heavy emphasis on export … orientation. However, it is difficult to see how export orientation could have played a significant causal role in these countries … the phenomenal export boom that ensued. Moreover, exports were initially too small to have a significant effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218320
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Open Economy Forces and Late 19th Century Scandinavian Catch-Up
O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
Scandinavia recorded very high growth rates between 1870 and 1914, catching up with the leaders. This paper estimates that about two-thirds of the Scandinavian catching up on Britain was due to the open economy forces of global factor and commodity market integration. All of the Scandinavian...
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Capital Goods Imports and Long-Run Growth
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2021
This paper presents an endogenous growth model of an open economy in which the growth rate of income is higher if foreign capital goods are used relatively more than domestic capital goods for the production of capital stock. Empirical results, using cross country data for the period 1960-85,...
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Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800
Mancall, Peter C.; Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021
extensive use of slave labor and created a successful staple-export sector, which by 1774 produced the highest levels of private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225834
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Lessons from the East Asian Nics : A Contrarian View
Young, Alwyn - 2021
The unusually rapid and prolonged growth of both output and exports in the Newly Industralizing Countries of East Asia has led many economists to believe that productivity growth in these economies, particularly in their manufacturing sectors, has been extraordinarily high. This view has, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235880
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Openness and Growth : What'S the Empirical Relationship?
Baldwin, Robert E. - 2021
There is still disagreement among economists concerning how a country's international economic policies and its rate of economic growth interact, despite a number of multi-country case studies utilizing comparable analytical frameworks, numerous econometric studies using large cross-country data...
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