Arbeitspapier

Trade globalization and political liberalization: A gravity approach

The literature has paid very little attention to a potential positive endogenous nexus between trade globalization and political liberalization. In this paper, I apply a structural approach to investigate two-way causality between the two based on the gravity trade theory, using data from a sample of 134 IMF countries over the pe- riod 1974-1998. An extensive search shows that trade globalization dampens political liberalization, though political liberalization fosters trade globalization. The paper also presents ample evidence of simultaneous bias when such bidirectional causality is ignored. Finally, it contains a thorough exploration of parameter heterogeneity by income and by region.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: TIGER Working Paper Series ; No. 104

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
Thema
Trade
Democracy
Gravity Equation
Internationale Wirtschaft
Globalisierung
Demokratisierung
Gravitationsmodell
Theorie
Schätzung
Welt

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Yu, Miaojie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER)
(wo)
Warsaw
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Yu, Miaojie
  • Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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