Productivity growth and international openness : evidence from Latin American countries 1980-2006
Editor
Universidad de Alcala. Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos (IELAT)
Fecha de publicación
2010Cita bibliográfica
Documentos de trabajo. IELAT-Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá, N. 14, (mayo 2010). ISSN: 1989-8819
Palabras clave
Productivity growth
Open economies
Non parametric regression
Panel data
Tipo de documento
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Resumen
In this study we examine productivity growth and their relationship with international
openness in Latin American countries over the period 1980¿2006. Overall results on
productivity indicate a stagnation process for the entire period 1986¿2006. The
decomposition of productivity into catching up and technical change reveals that the first
have a stagnation process and the latter worsening. Analyzing the relationship between
productivity growth and international openness we find different patterns for both
methodologies parametric (Arellano¿Bond estimator) and nonparametric (GAM) and for
both measures of international openness merchandise trade (% of GDP) and
(export+imports)/GDP. In particular in a parametric way, although the shape is curvilinear
for both models the relationship is positive inverted U¿shaped in the first case and Ushaped
in second.
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