This paper employs a total of thirty four openness factors and indigenous factors to construct two indicators for 62 world economies for the period 1998-2002. While most globalization studies concentrated on openness factors, regression estimates and simulation studies show that sound...

Globalization is an on-going, irreversible process through which world economies open to and integrate with each other with different degrees of commitment and outcome. The globalization issue has become really global in that people from different sphere of professions and academic disciplines...

This paper employs a total of thirty four openness factors and indigenous factors to construct two indicators for 62 world economies for the period 1998-2002. While most globalization studies concentrated on openness factors, regression estimates and simulation studies show that sound...