Do openness and human capital accumulation promote economic growth? While intuition argues yes, the existing empirical … factor productivity that include, among many others, human capital, openness, and distortion of domestic prices relative to … price distortion and increasing openness. Human capital plays a smaller role in enhancing growth through total factor …

show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level … MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred …

Using evidence from Colombia, the authors study the relationship between firms' productivity and their export market … at achieving high and sustainable economic growth in the long run. …

monetary model are not fully robust to data frequency and alternative estimation periods, either. Nevertheless, adding openness …

openness and endogenous firm productivity. We show that firm heterogeneity plays a crucial role in the effects of openness on …Motivated by new evidence that managerial incentives play an important role in determining firm productivity, this … complementary to the inter-firm reallocation effect in the Melitz (2003) model in explaining the observed link between openness and …

Using evidence from Colombia, the authors study the relationship between firms' productivity and their export market … at achieving high and sustainable economic growth in the long run. …