Four different versions of the macroeconomic models popular in policy analysis are specified and numerically implemented. Each provides a framework to experiment fiscal, monetary and trade policy issues for a small open economy or for economies that are interdependent in the global economy....

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between domestic absorption, openness and growth performance. While the relationship between growth and openness has been the focus of almost the entirety of the related studies, the role of domestic absorption has been ignored. The...