The theoretical linkages between openness and long-run economic growth are established with the development of new … growth theories. In this literature, it has been shown that openness affects economic growth through a number of channels and … theoretical models on the subject are very sophisticated and provide useful insights into the linkages between openness and growth …

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 …