This study examines the effects of foreign direct investment, gross fixed capital formation, real exchange rate, and trade openness on economic growth in newly industrialized countries for 1982 2019 by using panel ARDL method. Before estimating ARDL, we tested existence cross-sectional dependence among countries, determining degree integrations variables second-generation unit root tests examin...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in Jordan light trade openness, during period from 1999 2019. Theoretical Framework: discusses how Jordan, as a developing country, has worked over years attract by creating an environment incentives, benefits, and legislation that encourages such investments; taking advantage low local labor wages, h...

The study investigates how openness influences information and communication technology (ICT) penetration for improved government quality in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. Openness is measured in terms of trade and financial globalisation whereas ICT is proxied with mobile phone and internet penetration rates. Ten bundled and unbundled governance indicators are used. The empirical...

Financial openness is often associated with higher rates of economic growth. We show that the impact of openness on factor productivity growth is more important than the effect on capital growth. This explains why the growth effects of liberalization appear to be largely permanent, not temporary. We attribute these permanent liberalization effects to the role financial openness plays in stock m...

The characterisation of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research. We discuss measures to represent the public availability of articles along with their archival location, licences, access costs and supporting information. Calculations illustrating these new metrics are ...

Opening up the Australian economy to international trade has become one of the cornerstones of economic policy over the past decade. Tariff protection and assistance to the manufacturing sector, for instance, have already fallen dramatically and are intended to be reduced to negligible proportions by the end of the century. Whereas average effective rates of assistance were over 20 per cent in ...

In the networked information and knowledge society, we see a frequent use of the notions of “open” and “openness”; open source, open region, open economy, open government, open innovation. In parallel we can also observe changes of practises relating to how we produce and exchange products, information, knowledge and culture, enabled by the knowledge society, information technology and the Inte...

Application developers are of growing importance to ensure that software platforms (e.g. Facebook, Android) gain or maintain a competitive edge. However, despite calls for research to investigate developers’ perspective on platform-centric ecosystems, no research study has been dedicated to identifying the facets that constitute developers’ perception of platform openness. In this paper, we dev...