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The relationship between trade openness and economic growth: Some new insights on the openness measurement issue

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Empirical results on the links between trade openness and economic growth often suggest that, in the long run, more outward-oriented countries register better economic growth. However, a similar level of trade openness can hide different types of trade structures. The aim of this paper is to enrich the way of measuring trade openness taking into account two different dimensions of countries' integration in world trade: export quality and export variety. Based on the estimation of an endogenous growth model on a panel of 169 countries between 1988 and 2014 using a Generalized Method of Moments estimator, our results confirm that countries exporting higher quality products and new varieties grow more rapidly. More importantly, we find a non-linear pattern between the export ratio and the quality of the export basket, suggesting that openness to trade may impact growth negatively for countries which are specialized in low quality products. A non-linear relationship between exports variety, the export ratio and growth is also found, suggesting that countries increasing their exports will grow more rapidly after reaching a certain degree of the extensive margin of exports.
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hal-01987393 , version 1 (21-01-2019)

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Marilyne Huchet, Chantal Le Mouël, Mariana Vijil. The relationship between trade openness and economic growth: Some new insights on the openness measurement issue. The World Economy, 2018, 41 (1), pp.59-76. ⟨10.1111/twec.12586⟩. ⟨hal-01987393⟩
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