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Does Trade Cause Growth? Author(s): Jeffrey A. Frankel and David Romer Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 3, (Jun., 1999), pp. 379-399 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: /stable/117025 Accessed: 09/06/2008 22:55 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use, available at /page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTORs Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at /action/showPublisher?publisherCode=aea. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We enable the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. Does Trade Cause Growth? By JEFFREYA. FRANKELAND DAVID ROMER* Examiningthe correlationbetweentrade and income cannot identifythe direction of causationbetweenthe two. Countriesgeographiccharacteristics,however,have importanteffects on trade, and are plausibly uncorrelatedwith other determinants of income. Thispaper thereforeconstructsmeasuresof the geographic component of countries trade, and uses those measures to obtain instrumen