openness and natural resource rent. As such, we extend the determinants of dollarization to capture these variables. A dataset … to the increasing rate of dollarization. Specifically, it was found that trade openness and financial liberalization are …

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing …

The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector … as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies … between openness and the size of government might be mediated by the quality of its public sector. While countries with weak …

This paper integrates a previously missing wealth-effect component in the openness-finance debate. From a panel of 29 … low and middle income African countries with data spanning from 1987 to 2008, we provide evidence that openness (trade and … economic cost of banks in sampled countries, with trade openness more detrimental than financial openness. Banks in middle …

in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the …

This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some … MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less …