overemphasized. Many studies have shown a strong positive impact of trade on economic growth across developed and the emerging market …. However, very little is known about the simultaneous effect of trade and investment on growth in SSA when institutional … control variables are introduced in the model. Therefore, this study examines the role of trade and investment in the growth …

German regional data (NUTS 1 level) for GDP, trade, and FDI activity during the period 1976-2005. Applying various … homogeneous and heterogeneous panel data estimators to a Spatial Panel Error Correction Model (SpECM) for regional output growth … equation, the empirical results support the hypothesis of export- and FDI-led growth. We also show that for export and outward …

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces … threshold is allowed for. Thus, trade generally promotes growth and relatively high inequality retards growth. …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in … economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a countryś regulatory framework are …. Therefore, the two potential determinants to growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the …

There are common narratives about economic growth in Ethiopia. We analyze four common narratives, namely, that (1) the … economy is transforming from agriculture to industry, (2) that national economic growth has been rapid and sustained, (3) that …

trade with the PRC can become an engine of growth for developing Asia. To do so, we examine the structure of PRC's trade … developing Asia's exports and growth. As a result, developing Asian countries are increasingly looking to the People's Republic … of China (PRC) as a new source of demand and growth. The central objective of this paper is to empirically assess whether …