This paper examines different explanations—initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions—of the Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading or incomplete. Even when correctly articulated, openness appears to be a proximate rather than an underlying explanation for the Mauritian experience. The...

Short study abroad programs can facilitate students’ developing their intercultural sensitivity. The host country’s language may, however, affect the extent of students’ openness to diversity. This study empirically examines the impact of a host country’s language on openness to diversity attitudes of students participating in short summer study abroad courses. More specifically, this study com...

Application developers are of growing importance to ensure that smartphone software platforms gain or maintain a competitive edge. However, despite the increasing research interest in platform openness, previous research attempts have neglected to investigate the perspective of third-party developers. This paper contributes to a more sophisticated understanding of the third-party developers’ in...

This paper explores the causal relationship between economic growth, trade openness and energy consumption using data of 15 Asian countries. The study covers the period of 1980–2011. We have applied panel cointegration and causality approaches to examine the long-run and causal relationship between variables. Empirical results confirm the presence of cointegration between variables. The impact ...

Temple (2002) empirically challenges Romer’s (1993) negative opennessinflation relation on empirical grounds. This article links economic openness to the slopes of aggregate supply (AS) and aggregate demand (AD) to explain why the openness-inflation relation can be ambiguous. Starting with a widely used assumption initiated by Romer (1993) that more open economies face greater output inflation ...

This paper compares the synchronicity of individual stock returns in different countries. For the US, Morck et al (2000) and Campbell et al (2001) show that the US in the post war period experienced an increase in firm specific stock return variations and thus a reduction in synchronicity. We show that a similar international trend, albeit weaker, is visible for many countries. Using both regre...

Interoperability in the public sector can be improved by the use of open standards. Nonetheless, the openness of standards in government policies is debatable. This paper introduces the Dutch government policy on open standards, and will introduce a multi-dimensional view (and model) on openness rather than a one-dimensional strict definition. Applicability of the multi-dimensional model is tes...

An open multi-agent system (MAS) is a MAS where agents may be added, be removed or evolve (e.g. modify their abilities). Usually, the openness of a MAS is controlled by a middle-agent. In this paper, we tackle the problem of openness from a general point of view (considering the middle-agent approach as one of the possible solutions). Then, we propose an original approach based on the principle...

This paper compares the synchronicity of individual stock returns in different countries. For the US, Morck et al (2000) and Campbell et al (2001) show that the US in the post war period experienced an increase in firm specific stock return variations and thus a reduction in synchronicity. We show that a similar international trend, albeit weaker, is visible for many countries. Using both regre...