Intensive and extensive biases in economic networks: reconstructing world trade

Reconstructing the world trade multiplex: the role of intensive and extensive biases.

In economic and financial networks, the strength of each node has always an important economic meaning, such as the size of supply and demand, import and export, or financial exposure. Constructing null models of networks matching the observed strengths of all nodes is crucial in order to either detect interesting deviations of an empirical network from economically meaningful benchmarks or rec...

International Trade And Employment In Labour- Intensive Sectors In Iran: The Case Of Carpet- Weavers

بررسی آثار تجارت خارجی بر رشد اقتصادی ایران

Foreign trade and its relation to economic growth is one of the very controversial subjects especially when it comes to choose among the development strategies in the developing countries, and still there is no consensus among economists as to how trade policies are related to economic growth rate. In the modern theories and endogenous growth models, international trade economic openness affect...

Trade Openness and CO2 Emissions in Iran, 1971-2008

The increase of greenhouse gases (GHG) in which CO2 emissions constitute the principal component, is of major environmental problems of all societies. Economic growth impels intensive use of resources and as a result, more residues and wastes thrown in the nature that could lead to environmental degradation. This article tries to trace the eventual relationship between trade openness and enviro...

A Test for the Pollution Haven Effect in the Selected EU-Asian Countries

The pursuit of sustainable development requires balancing the objectives of FDI, Trade, economic growth and environmental protection. Achieving a balance between these often-conflicting priorities is difficult enough at the national level, where competing interests are at least grounded in a common environmental, social and economic context. At the international level, where different countries...