Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … do not. Thus, while openness to external knowledge might help firms to become better at innovating, it does not assist …

confirm earlier findings of a negative relationship between openness and city size for the period from 1970 to 1990, but are …

including the degree of openness, institutional change and sectoral change, based on a cross-province dataset. Our methodology …

This paper investigates the influence of international openness on economic growth in a sample of 32 European economies …. The usual approach in the literature on the topic is to observe the impact of trade openness on growth. We, however …, broaden this standard approach and analyse not only economic aspect of openness but also socio-political aspect. In our …

The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector … as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies … between openness and the size of government might be mediated by the quality of its public sector. While countries with weak …

This paper integrates a previously missing wealth-effect component in the openness-finance debate. From a panel of 29 … low and middle income African countries with data spanning from 1987 to 2008, we provide evidence that openness (trade and … economic cost of banks in sampled countries, with trade openness more detrimental than financial openness. Banks in middle …

This paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on regional inequality of South Korea. Trade has been the driving … force of Korea¡¯s economic growth since the 1960¡¯s and it still expands its trade openness through active participation on … bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. In regard to this, this study measures the impact of Korea¡¯s trade openness …

, greater openness of the economy, and macroeconomic stability are indispensable. …