Trade openness and growth: Pursuing empirical glasnost

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 447-475

  Billmeier, Andreas ^a   Nannicini, Tommaso ^a  

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EID: 67949083733     PISSN: 10207635     EISSN: 15645150     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/imfsp.2008.39     Document Type: Article

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