...Muhammad Tahir; Arshad Hayat Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential impact of trade openness on economic growth for the economy of Brunei Darussalam. Design/methodology/approach Empirical analyses are conducted using the autoregressive distributed lagged model (ARDL...

...Muhammad Tahir; Tooba Mazhar; Muhammad Asim Afridi Purpose The trade–growth nexus has been researched during the past few decades. However, the impact of trade openness on different sectors of the economy is not well explored. The purpose of the current study is to focus on developing countries...

... on the unit root analysis, correlation technique and a series of specification tests applied to annual time series data. Findings The results reveal that the complementary effects of OFDI on exports of the home country outweigh the substitution effects for four ASEAN countries. Furthermore, trade openness...

...Muhammad Tahir; Toseef Azid Purpose – This paper aims to establish a relationship between trade openness and economic growth in the context of the developing countries. This study has proposed a new measure of trade openness to the literature, as the available measures are flawed. Design...

...Muhammad Tahir; Imran Khan Purpose – This paper aims to focus on the Asian developing countries to examine the impact of trade openness on economic growth. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical analysis is carried out with the help of panel econometric techniques and two-stages least...