Trade, Regulations, and Growth

Trade does not stimulate growth in economies with excessive business and labor regulations. The authors examine the effect of openness on growth using cross-country regressions in both levels and changes. Results from the levels regressions imply t...

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Main Authors:	Bolaky, Bineswaree, Freund, Caroline
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE VALUE AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE TRADE BARRIERS TO ENTRY BILATERAL TRADE BILATERAL TRADE DATA BLACK MARKET BLACK MARKET PREMIUM BUSINESS CLIMATE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS SECTOR COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSUMERS CORRUPTION COUNTRY REGRESSIONS CPI CRIME CURRENCY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEREGULATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DOMESTIC DEMAND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF TRADE EMPLOYMENT ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES ENFORCEABILITY ESTIMATION RESULTS EXCHANGE RATE EXOGENOUS VARIABLES EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXPORT MARKETS EXPORTS FOREIGN COMPETITION FOREIGN INVESTORS GDP GDP DEFLATOR GDP PER CAPITA GRAVITY MODEL GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSIONS HIGH ENTRY HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES IMPORT COMPETITION IMPORTS INCOME INCOME GROUPS INCOME GROWTH INCOME LEVELS INCREASE GROWTH INDEPENDENT VARIABLE INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES INFLATION INFLATION RATE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY INSTITUTIONAL REFORM INVESTMENT RATIO LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LAGGED GROWTH LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES LAW INDEX LEGAL ORIGIN LONG RUN LONG-RUN GROWTH MACRO STABILITY MARKET SIZE 0 HYPOTHESIS OPENNESS PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES PER-CAPITA INCOME POLITICAL INSTABILITY POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE GOODS PRODUCERS PRODUCTION PATTERNS PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH PROPERTY RIGHTS REAL GDP REAL INCOME REAL INCOMES REGRESSION ANALYSIS REGULATORY BURDEN REGULATORY REGIME RULE OF LAW SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SPECIALIZATION STANDARD DEVIATION STRUCTURAL CHANGE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH TRADE BARRIERS TRADE DATA TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE OPENNESS TRADE PARTNERS TRADE REFORM TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYMENT UNOFFICIAL ECONOMY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/3211227/trade-regulations-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13889

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Trade, Regulations, and Growth

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