• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Does trade openness affect economic growth in India? Evidence from threshold cointegration with asymmetric adjustment
  • Contributor: Mallick, Lingaraj [Author]; Ranjan Behera, Smruti [Author]
  • Published: Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2020
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2020.1782659
  • Keywords: trade openness ; economic growth ; O47 ; C32 ; F62 ; error correctionmechanism ; threshold cointegration
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  • Description: This paper investigates the long-run equilibrium relationship between economic growth and trade openness in India during the period 1960-2018 using the asymmetric error-correction model with threshold cointegration. To evaluate the robustness impact of trade openness on economic growth under different regimes, we divide the full sample period into two sub-periods, i.e., pre-trade reforms period 1960-1990, and post-trade reforms period 1991-2018. The study indeed confirms the evidence of asymmetric cointegration between economic growth and trade openness in India during the period under evaluation and over the different sub-periods. The estimated asymmetric error-correction model exhibits a different speed of adjustment in trade openness in response to positive and negative economic growth shocks in the short-run. More specifically, during the pre-reforms period, deviations from the long-run equilibrium due to a relative increase in economic growth have a lower speed of adjustment in comparison to deviations caused by a corresponding decrease in economic growth in India.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)