We discuss the role of contracting impediments created by the existence of national borders on open economy growth. In … a two-good neoclassical Ramsey growth model with lack of enforcement on international trade contracts we show that … many researchers believe, international trade affects growth by increasing investment rates. The model provides a new …

Countries rich in natural resources constitute both growth losers and growth winners. We claim that the main reason for …

The relationship between foreign trade openness and growth is a challenge for economic analysis. Econometric approaches … growth model. The model is designed to reproduce the changing openness in South Africa 1960-2005. Productivity growth is … equivalent, and the counterfactual elimination of the tariff equivalent shows large potential for GDP growth. According to our …

Trade is shown to increase economic growth purely through comparative advantage without recourse to scale effects …, technology transfer, research and development, or even international investment. The resulting growth rates are those that would … result from technology transfer, even though no technology transfer actually occurs. A balanced growth rate exists, is …

The present work encloses an analysis related to the channels through which income inequality affects economic growth … and another related to the sources of economic growth. In the first, we use two-stage estimation with fixed effects … finding that the fiscal effects of inequality on growth may depend on the government expenditure covariate. Secondly, we …

in migration patterns for the growth and distribution of world income and population using a model with endogenous … poverty and increasing world growth. …

novelty requirement and its effect on growth an trade. I consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two regions. The … to be a useable instrument to promote innovation and growth, and also a strategic trade policy instrument. I numerically …

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 …

requirement and its effect on growth and trade. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two regions. The North is … stands to be a useable instrument to promote innovation and growth, and also a strategic trade policy instrument. We …