This study investigates the effect of openess on economic growth for rapidly growing economies in East Asia in which rapid growth has been accompanied by a persistent openess to world trade. The framework of analysis is a five-variable vector auto-regressive model that consists of real output,...

The effect of increasing openness on real output growth in China is examined. The framework of analysis is a regression model that uses time-series data for each province. For east coastal provinces, increasing openness is found to have positive effects on real output growth, and some of the...