While trade integration is often regarded as a principal determinant of economic growth, the empirical evidence for a … causal linkage between trade and growth is ambiguous. This paper argues that the effect of trade in dynamic panel estimations … highly significant impact on economic growth can be found. …

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 …

This paper investigates the influence of international openness on economic growth in a sample of 32 European economies …. The usual approach in the literature on the topic is to observe the impact of trade openness on growth. We, however … openness. Our research, in general, shows that openness is an important determinant of growth in a set of investigated …

This paper examines the short-term and long-run dynamics between per capita GDP growth and openness for 158 countries … between openness and growth by including only growth rates and lagged values of the independent variable. Additionally, we …-run coefficients indicate a positive significant causality from openness to growth and vice versa, indicating that international …

interactions on Chinese regional economic growth. We found the following: (1) Openness, especially the growth of foreign …Based on provincial panel data, we tested the effects of openness, denationalization, fiscal reform, and their …-direct-investment/gross-domesticproduct ratio, has been important in enhancing China s growth since the mid-1980s, while this effect is not so significant in …

There is agreement in the literature on economic growth concerning the transitory effects of capital accumulation on … accumulation. Only in this case should expect long-run effects of capital accumulation on economic growth. Inspired by this idea, I … investment and infrastructures have played a significant role in accounting for long-run growth in China. However, I do not find …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the …

This paper studies how the effect of trade openness on economic growth depends on complementary reforms that help a … panel evidence on how the growth effect of openness depends on a variety of structural characteristics. For this purpose, we … use a non-linear growth regression specification that interacts a proxy of trade openness with proxies of educational …

Do openness and human capital accumulation promote economic growth? While intuition argues yes, the existing empirical … price distortion and increasing openness. Human capital plays a smaller role in enhancing growth through total factor … factor productivity that include, among many others, human capital, openness, and distortion of domestic prices relative to …