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Economic growth – is openness to international trade beneficial?: an empirical analysis of economic growth and trade policy

Hystad, Johannes T.; Jensen, Håvard G.
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This thesis attempts to answer the following research question:

“To which degree, if any, does policy open to international trade lead to increased economic

growth within a country?”

The applied measure of openness to international trade is an index that increases as a country

has less restrictions on trade, while annual growth in GDP per capita is the preferred measure

of economic growth. There is a potential problem of endogeneity in the openness index, so

four instrumental variables are suggested. These are the share of votes equal to the U.S. in the

United Nations General Assembly, number of years as member of GATT/WTO, share of

children that are immune to DPT and a country’s distance to equator.

A panel data set for up to 91 countries for the time period 1970-2011 is analysed, with

countries from all income-groups represented. First, openness is considered exogenous, and

directly applied with both an ordinary least squares-estimator and a fixed effect-estimator.

Second, the potential endogeneity bias is accounted for by use of instrumental variable

regressions.

The main results of this thesis are that there exists a negative relationship between openness to

international trade and economic growth. The result is robust to alterations of model

specification, and high-income countries have the largest reported negative effects of a ceteris

paribus increase in openness. The instrumental variables remain strong throughout the

robustness tests, and especially share of votes equal to the U.S. in the United Nations General

Assembly, number of years as member of GATT/WTO are reported as valid.

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