The Textile Museum & The International Hajji Baba Club Washington D.C. June 19, 2004 Introduction Handmade carpet production in Iran goes back to the history, of which is not the subject of this short paper and presentation. Carpet production and in general carpet culture especially in rural areas is combined and mixed with every-day life of many people. In rural places, almost all the women...

The decision to serve foreign markets through exports or direct investment (FDI) has been studied within proximity-concentration models of location, mainly in the context trade goods. This paper goes beyond this approach account for specific nature services that are traded across borders relation market transaction costs. We show how can be characterized by a bundle attributes collectively desc...

It is well known in the economic literature that labour supply curve can bend backwards and, therefore, leisure be a Giffen good. also normal This article proves if good, it has to result that, contrary common knowledge economics, not all goods, are inferior goods. These results could taken into account, for example, when finding empirical evidence and designing policies on supply, an era of ma...

At the end of Qing Dynasty, with opening Yingkou port, economic exchanges between Northeast China and foreign countries were exported. The transportation goods was more convenient by water than land. Liaohe river has become an important road trade transportation, same time, it also way to culture introduction. Therefore, there are nearly three times ports along before. With each port as core, g...

This article examines the volume of Eurasian trade in coffee exported to Europe, especially Yemeni and commercial developments that occurred this commodity during seventeenth eighteenth centuries. research indicates entry such a strategic as into trade, competition between European companies, brought about profound change nature economic relations two continents. was accompanied by an important...

Poor rule of law is usually a binding constraint for foreign investment and lending. But recently Chinese firms disproportionally invest overseas in countries with weak institutions. How do they manage this exposure? Our model appeals to China’s buying power as importer and also to its within-country coordination to act like a single agent. These two factors allow China to credibly commit to si...

CO(2) emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are the primary cause of global warming. Much attention has been focused on the CO(2) directly emitted by each country, but relatively little attention has been paid to the amount of emissions associated with the consumption of goods and services in each country. Consumption-based accounting of CO(2) emissions differs from traditional, production...

Staphylococcus aureus nuclease is a small, secreted protein which has been successfully used as a reporter system to identify exported products in Lactococcus lactis. Here, biochemical evidence is provided that the nuclease is exported by Mycobacterium smegmatis in the presence, but also in the absence of a signal sequence, and thus probably independently of the Sec translocation pathway. This ...