贸易开放、制度变迁与经济增长——基于不同国家规模和发展水平的比较分析

Open Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth—A Comparative Study to Countries Different Sized and Income Leveled

关于经济增长源泉的探讨一直没有停止过。最近的研究已经不满足于对引起经济增长直接原因的讨论,而是分析在这些直接原因的背后,是什么因素决定了一国要素积累和创新的速度。其中国际贸易、制度质量和地理因素这三者被认为是引起经济增长更深层次的原因。对于不同经济发展水平和国家规模的各国而言,这三者在经济增长中的相对作用大小并不完全一致。

Traditionally, growth theory focused on physical and human capital accumulation, its endogenous growth variant, and technological change. But all these factors for latest researches are rather doubtful to indicate the real cause of economic growth. Instead, the causes of international trade, institutional quality and geography have to be seen the deeper determinants of economic growth. This paper holds that these deeper determinants are varied in countries of different size and income level, i.e., industrialized countries, large developing countries or small developing countries.