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North-South Technology Spillovers : The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2021
This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325305
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Chapter 22. A Global View of Economic Growth
Ventura, Jaume - 2005
This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023765
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The KOF Globalisation Index - revisited
Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2018
In this paper we present and describe the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalisation for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006) and updated in Dreher et al....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847841
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Growing Protectionism After The Financial Crisis : What is the Evidence?
Wiberg, Magnus; Wallen, Fabian - 2021
The weak global GDP growth since the financial crisis in 2007-2009 has coincided with unusually weak growth in global trade. Organisations that monitor international macro-economic development have identified growing protectionism – not least the increase in non-tariff barriers to trade, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224809
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The Paradoxes of Global Economic Convergence
Akın, Çiğdem - 2012
The global economy of the past century was dominated by the United States and Western Europe. When they sneezed, the old joke goes, the rest of the world caught a cold. But that dominance is now being challenged by the rise of rapidly growing emerging market economies. And the shift is changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101221
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EU's eastern neighbours: Institutional harmonisation and potential growth bonus
Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Paweł - 2009
growth performance and reforms, as well as between reforms and European integration. The paper derives the range of possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430828
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Chapter 8. Growth from Globalization? A View from the Very Long Run
Meissner, Christopher M. - 2014
What is the connection between different forms of globalization, economic growth, and welfare? International trade … critically summarize various measures of international integration in each of these spheres. I then move on to discuss and … evaluate the ongoing and active debate about whether globalization is significantly associated with growth in the past. I pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025589
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Trade Openness and Cultural Creative Destruction
Coyne, Christopher J. - 2010
This paper empirically analyzes the net effect of trade openness on ‘economic culture,' measured by indicators of trust, respect, level of self-determination, and obedience. Openness to international trade means that societies are more likely to be exposed to alternative attitudes, beliefs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152867
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Global Trade and GDP Co-Movement
de Soyres, Francois - 2020
We revisit the association between trade and GDP co-movement for 135 countries from 1970 to 2009. Guided by a simple theory, we introduce two notions of trade linkages: (i) the usual direct bilateral trade index and (ii) new indexes of common exposure to third countries capturing the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833540
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Global Trade and GDP Co-Movement
de Soyres, Francois; Gaillard, Alexandre - 2021
This paper revisits the relationship between trade and cross-country GDP correlation for 134 countries from 1970 to 2009. We introduce two notions of trade linkages: (i) direct bilateral trade index and (ii) common exposure to "third" countries capturing the role of trade networks . Both are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216383