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Regulation, trade and economic growth

Magdalene Silberberger and Jens Königer

Economic Systems, 2016, vol. 40, issue 2, 308-322

Abstract: The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a country’s regulatory framework are amplified by economic integration, which makes factors and producers more mobile and enables them to avoid burdensome regulation. Therefore, these two potential determinants of growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the impact of the regulatory framework on growth in an integrated economy. We deal with the most common problems in estimating growth equations by using internal instruments to identify a relationship between regulation and growth in the presence of international trade and find evidence that both regulation and trade have a significant positive influence on growth, with the effect of regulation being especially pronounced for countries that have worse regulatory quality and for middle-income countries.

Keywords: Institutions; Integration; Regulation; Openness; Trade; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 F43 L51 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2016.05.001

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