Trade relations EEC—Developing countries

The Effect Of Trade Openness On Environmental Quality: Evidence From Iran's Trade Relations With The Selected Countries Of The Different Blocks

Intermediate Goods Trade and Macroeconomic Volatility: The Case of Iran-China Trade Relations

This paper tries to analyze the impacts of intermediate goods trade on production, consumption, investment, net exports, employment, labor wage and capital rent of Iran in its bilateral trade relations with China. This analysis has been done by modeling, solving and calibrating an international real business cycles (IRBC) model in period 1980-2009. The results show that when elasticity of subst...

An Analysis of International Outsourcing in Iran-China Trade Relations

Iran-China relations are deeply rooted in history and have been enhanced recently with bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy, arms sales, trade, political cooperation and cultural ties. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of international outsourcing in form of trading intermediate products on bilateral trade relations between Iran and China. As an empirical work, we h...

Trade Facilitation in Developing Countries

Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation. Although often viewed as narrowly concerned with the ease and speed of Customs procedures, even greater trade cost reductions and trade and welfare benefits may be reaped from a broader view of trade facilitation (TF) that incorporates tra...

International Trade with Lumpy Countries

International Trade with Lumpy Countries by Paul N. Courant and Alan V. Deardorff The University of Michigan This paper explores the implications for the pattern of international trade of various differences among regions within countries-what we call lumpiness. It is shown first that if factors of production are immobile among regions, and if they are sufficiently unevenly distributed across t...