The paper adopts a time series framework of the Vector Error Correction Models (VECM) to study the dynamic relationship between export, FDI and GDP for six emerging countries of Chile, India, Mexico, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand. Stationarity of the series with structural breaks is also...

A country’s inability to export to its potential is a reflection of institutional and structural impediments and rigidities that exist at home as well as in its trading partners. Distinguishing the rigidities that exist in home and trading partner countries as ‘behind the border’ factors...