Funke, Michael; Gronwald, Marc - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2009
In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments … we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the … with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa. …