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Outward-orientation and development : are revisionists right
Srinivasan, Thirukodikaval N.; Bhagwati, Jagdish N. - 1999
The costs of import substitution (IS) as a strategy for industrialization, which was deemed synonymous with economic development by many development economists of the fifties and sixties, were shown to be substantial in the influential and nuanced studies of the seventies and eighties under the...
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Comparative Advantage, Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalisation : An Empirical Test
Fuss, Catherine - 2012
This paper investigates how economies of scope in multi-product firms interact with comparative advantage in determining the effect of trade liberalization on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm-product-level data over the period 1997-2007. We first provide evidence...
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Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation : an empirical test
Fuss, Catherine; Zhu, Linke - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422725
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Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation : an empirical test
Fuss, Catherine; Zhu, Linke - 2012
This paper investigates how economies of scope in multi-product firms interact with comparative advantage in determining the effect of trade liberalisation on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm-product-level data over the period 1997-2007. We first provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596263
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Impact of trade openness on economic growth among ECOWAS Countries : 1975-2017
Ijirshar, Victor U. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 10 (2019) 1, pp. 75-96
This study assesses the impact of trade openness on economic growth among ECOWAS countries using secondary data from 1975 to 2017. The study uses non-stationary heterogeneous dynamic panel models through the application of Pooled Mean Group (PMG) and Mean Group (MG) estimators since time...
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The short- and long-run relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Uganda
Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22
Using data covering the period from 1983 to 2019, we apply the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound testing approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade openness increases economic growth, but this empirical...
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Heterogeneous firms and international trade : the role of productivity and financial fragility
Assenza, Tiziana; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Grazzini, Jakob; … - 2016
Starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) explains why individual … productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to export. In this paper we build a model along Melitz's lines to show … international markets. We show that firms with low productivity may still be able to penetrate foreign markets provided they have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492068
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The micro-economics of export supply : firm-level evidence from Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019
This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2015
extension of our approach to multivariate diffusions, in which one can permit innovations to productivity to be transmitted …
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Export performance and enterprise reform in China's coastal provinces
Perkins, Frances C. - In: Economic development and cultural change 45 (1997) 3, pp. 501-539
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