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Growth Of Industrialized Countries And Trade Openness, James Lutz
Growth Of Industrialized Countries And Trade Openness, James Lutz
James M Lutz
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Trade Policies Of The Former Centrally Planned Economies, James Toole, James Lutz
Trade Policies Of The Former Centrally Planned Economies, James Toole, James Lutz
James M Lutz
Since the end of Communist rule, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have been forced to restructure their formerly centrally planned economies. Among the dilemmas they have faced is how open they should be to international trade. Using multiple regression, the openness of these economies to trade is empirically determined while controlling for the effects of both population and wealth. Residuals from the regression equations are then examined in order to identify how much more or less open to trade each country has been. Analysis of the residuals for six distinct regions of the former Communist …