Leveraging Trade Opportunities with Non-Traditional Partners: The Malaysia-GCC Perspective

Leveraging trade opportunities with non-traditional partners: the Malaysia–GCC perspective

This paper examines the impact of economic factors on bilateral trade flows between Malaysia and the GCC through estimations of panel data using a gravity model. In particular, the paper compares the determinants of bilateral trade and trade potentials between Malaysia and two regions, the non-traditional Gulf alliance and the traditional ASEAN counterpart, to provide insights for leveraging op...

The Synchronization of Business Cycles among Iran’s Trade Partners

In recent years, investigating synchronization of business cycles among countries, after increasing integration of global economies, has been attracted more attention of policy makers and researchers. Perhaps an unknown origin of such similarities, as an open question, is the main reason of these interests. So, with regard to the mentioned question, the aim of this paper is to investigate some ...

Potential impact of methane hydrate development on GCC and NEA energy trade dynamics: The Gulf perspective

Northeast Asian (NEA) region has been one of the biggest fossil fuel clients of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The emergence of unconventional hydrocarbons, such as shale (oil & gas), coalbed methane, methane hydrates, biogas, coal gasification, etc. will naturally have an effect on the ongoing bilateral trade relations between the two regions. The development of such fossil fuel alternati...

The Role of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) between Iran and Malaysia their Intra industry Trade (IIT)

Investigating the Factors Affecting Trade within the Pharmaceutical Industry in Iran and Selection of Business Partners (with Emphasis on Innovation)

Given the fluctuations in world oil prices and the endless supply of this underground resource, the pharmaceutical industry is one of the attractive sectors of investment in intra-industry trade. Intra-industry trade refers to the simultaneous export and import of a group of similar goods, resulting in product differentiation in imperfectly competitive markets and the existence of economies of ...