I examine the dynamic relationship between patenting, total factor productivity and openness to trade for a sample of twelve OECD countries from 1978 to 2004. Applying a technology-industry concordance to sort patents by sector, I study the sectoral shifts within countries throughout this period using a mathematical decomposition from international trade theory, constant market share analysis. ...

This paper explores heterogeneity in the openness-productivity growth relationship, specifically whether the productivity payoffs from openness or trade liberalisation are conditioned by the quality of a country’s institutions and the extent of natural barriers. The paper endogenously searches for the type of heterogeneity; what variable might be used to capture the heterogeneity and with what ...

Reducing income inequality in Africa rests on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth and convergence. Liberalizing trade has emerged as a force of TFP Notwithstanding increasing trade, is falling while the differences rates remain wide. We provide evidence impact liberalization examine by origin, disaggregated into intra-Africa, rest-of-the-world trade. Also, we recognize uniquenes...

The study investigates the causal link between trade openness and economic growth for four South Asian countries for period 1972-1985 and 1986-2007 to examine the scenario before and after the implementation of SAARC. Panel cointegration and FMOLS techniques are employed for short run and long run estimates. In 1972-85 short run unidirectional causality from GDP to openness is found whereas, in...

I investigate the determinants of business cycles synchronization, across regions and over time. I use both international and intranational data to evaluate the linkages between trade in goods, trade in ...nancial assets, specialization and business cycles synchronization in the context of a system of simultaneous equations. In all speci...cations, the results are as follows. (i) Simultaneity i...

Early human societies and their interactions with the natural world have been extensively explored in palaeoenvironmental studies across Central and Western Europe. Yet, despite an extensive body of scholarship, there is little consideration of the environmental impacts of proto-historic urbanisation. Typically palaeoenvironmental studies of Bronze and Iron Age societies discuss human impact in...

This paper explores the relationship between economic openness and income per person using crosscountry data. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental-variables strategy first used by Frankel and Romer (1999). First, we show that bilateral geographic characteristics of countries such as distance, contiguity and commonality of language are successful in predicting openness to i...

I investigate the determinants of business cycles synchronization, across regions and over time. I use both international and intranational data to evaluate the linkages between trade in goods, trade in ...nancial assets, specialization and business cycles synchronization in the context of a system of simultaneous equations. In all speci...cations, the results are as follows. (i) Simultaneity i...

Does religious freedom steer economic growth impact of trade-openness? This paper employs the method moments-quantile regression to panel data 117 developed and developing countries show that accommodate greater liberal beliefs enjoy, on average, higher in per capita income via deeper trade openness. Empirical results reveal dynamic nexus between across is subject institutional environment. The...

THE struggle of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to conclude the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations brought again to the forefront the important role that agricultural policy continues to play in international trade relations. The sector is subject to heavy-handed governmental interventions throughout the world. Despite decades (even centuries) of economists’ arguments against agri...