Trade and Growth

The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey,” 2012 in Beyond the Resource Curse, edited by B. Shaffer and T. Ziyadov (University of Pennsylvania Press).  NBER WP 15836

"The World Trading System and Implications of External Opening," Chapter 10 in The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance, edited by Narcis Serra and Joseph Stiglitz (Oxford University Press), 2007.   Panel of Fundacio CIDOB forum, Barcelona, 2004.  CFIA Disc.Paper 04-07.

Comments on Bosworth and Collins, “The Empirics of Growth: An Update,”  Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Sept.2003.

"Trade and Growth in East Asian Countries: Cause and Effect?" with David Romer and Teresa Cyrus, 1996.  Pacific Basin WP Series No. 95-03, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.   NBER  Working Paper No. 5732. In NICs After Asian Crisis, H. Singer, N. Hatti and R.Tandon, eds., New World Order Series, vol. 23 (BR Publ.Corp.: India), 2006.  

"An Estimate of the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade and Income," with Andrew Rose, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002. SUMMARY     [Our data, some relevant op-ed and newspaper coverage, and a response to a comment by Dani Rodrik, are available at Andy Rose's website.]  The Frankel-Romer-Rose gravity-based instrumental variable for trade openness, as updated in Frankel-Rose, 2002

"Does Trade Cause Growth?," with David Romer, American Economic Review 89, no. 3, June 1999, 379-399.    NBER WP No. 5476.
Reprinted in The Globalization of the World Economy, D.Greenaway, H. Görg, and R.Kneller, eds. (Edward Elgar Publ., Cheltenham UK, 2008). Also in Global Economic InstitutionsCritical Writings on Global Institutions, Prof. dr. W.T.M. Molle, ed. (Routledge, 2008).  And reprinted in Global  Trade, edited by John Kirton (Taylor & Francis, 2009).

Data on David Romer's website.      Interview with David Romer.

The Frankel-Romer gravity-based instrumental variable for trade openness, as updated in Frankel-Rose, 2002.

"Determinants of Long-Term Growth," Background Paper for a Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Senior Economic Advisers, Vancouver, Nov.1997. Appears as "Why Economies Grow the Way They Do," Canadian Business Economics, 6, no.1, Sept. 1998.

 "The World Over the Next Twenty-five Years: Global Trade Liberalization, and the Relative Growth of Different Regions," The World in 2020: An international panel on economic prospects a quarter of a century ahead, Prometeia, Bologna, November.  CIDER WP C96-061, 1996 (UC Berkeley).  In Lo Scenario Mondiale e il Futuro Dell'Economia Italiana, edited by Paolo Onofri (Il Mulino), 1997 (in Italian), 49-81.

"Comments on Brad De Long's 'Cross-Country Variations in National Economic Growth Rates: The Role of "Technology" '," in Technology and Growth, edited by Jeffrey Fuhrer and Jane Sneddon Little, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1996.