Dynamic Panel Data Evidence on the Trade-Income Relation |
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Authors: | Felbermayr Gabriel J. |
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Affiliation: | 1.Chair for International Economic Relations, University of Tübingen, Nauklerstra?e 47, 72074, Tübingen, Germany ; |
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Abstract: | This paper revisits the relationship between a country’s openness and its per capita income. Building on Frankel and Romer, it argues that a dynamic econometric specification similar to the ones used in empirical growth studies better fits the theoretical literature and also resolves some otherwise unresolved inconsistencies. The preferred econometric method is Blundell and Bond’s system-GMM estimator, which allows dealing with measurement error, weak instruments, and time-invariant country-specific effects. The findings confirm the existence of a strong effect of trade on income but fail to find evidence for trade as an independent factor of divergence. JEL no. F43, O40 |
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Keywords: | Growth empirics trade convergence generalized methods of moments |
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