How Robust is the Growth-Openness Connection? Historical Evidence

By Athanasios Vamvakidis. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Institutions and Development: The Interaction Between Trade Regime and Political System (2005, neutral): “One should also note that, although openness may indeed have been an obstacle to growth in the 19th century (e.g., O’Rourke, 2000; Clemens and Williamson, 2001; Vamvakidis, 2002),42”
Does free trade really reduce growth? Further testing using the economic freedom index (2005, background): “Vamvakidis (2002) finds no support for a positive growth-openness connection”
Economic Growth and Freedom: A Causality Study (2003, background): “See Vamvakidis (2002) for the connection between economic growth and trade openness. broad range of variables, for a considerable number of countries, over a long period of time—a task whose complexity should not be underestimated.”
Industrial Policy: Can We Go Beyond an Unproductive Confrontation? (2010, neutral): “and rate of growth (O’Rourke 2000; Vamvakidis 2002; Clemens and Williams 2004).5”
Technology clubs, technology gaps and growth trajectories (2008, neutral): “See the comprehensive overviews of Vamvakidis (2002), Lewer and Van de Berg (2003) and Darity and Davis (2005).”
The Anatomy of Growth in the OECD since 1870: the Transformation from the Post-Malthusian Growth Regime to the Modern Growth Epoch (2009, background): “…estimates of Dowrick and Nguyen (1989), Dowrick and Gemmell (1991), Coe and Helpman (1995), Lichtenberg and Van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie (1998), Vamvakidis (2002), Zachariadis (2004), Ha and Howitt (2007) and Madsen (2007, 2008a, 2008b) show that knowledge spillovers and innovative activity…”
The impact of trade openness on economic growth: The case of Cote d’Ivoire (2017, background): “In contrast, Vamvakidis (2002) and Ulaşan (2015) find no support for the trade-led growth hypothesis.”
Trade openness, income levels, and economic growth: The case of developing countries, 1970–2009 (2015, background): “We begin the analysis in 1970 not only to maximise the number of countries we have in the sample, but also because, as Vamvakidis (2002) has exhibited, the positive link between trade openness and economic growth is rather a recent phenomenon mostly driven by the unprecedented expansion in world…”
Assessing Economic Liberalization Episodes: A Synthetic Control Approach (2013, background): “Presenting historical evidence, Vamvakidis (2002) finds that a positive correlation between openness and growth can be detected in the data only starting from 1970.”
Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century (2000, background): “Table 3, taken from O'Rourke and Williamson (1997), summarises various measures of protection in 1875 and 1913.”
Does Trade Reduce Poverty?: A View from Africa (2014, background): “Considering trade policy measures instead, Harrison (1996), Edwards (1997), and Irwin and Terviö (2002) find a significant negative effect of trade on economic growth, while Vamvakidis (2002) still shows that trade enhances growth.”