How Much Do Trading Partners Matter for Economic Growth? »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2004/26
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Vivek Arora , and Athanasios Vamvakidis
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2004
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451844412.001
ISBN: 9781451844412
Keywords: trading partners, trading partner, trade share, open economies, partner countries, Economic Growth of Open Economies,
This paper empirically examines the extent to which a country's economic growth is influenced by its trading partner economies. Panel estimation results based on four decades of data for over 100 countries show tha...