Extending Ireland’s (1994) model, this paper analyzes an international economy where cash or credit can be used for payment. Foreign trade credit is more costly than its domestic analog. A depreciation of the real exchange rate is associated with an external surplus and a reduced share of imports purchased with credit. Economic growth slows when foreign trade credit becomes the predominant mean...

We use microdata collected at the border and store to characterize price impact of recent US trade policy on importers, exporters, consumers. At border, import tariff pass-through is much higher than exchange rate pass-through. Chinese exporters did not lower their dollar prices by much, despite appreciation dollar. By contrast, significantly lowered affected foreign retaliatory tariffs. In sto...

China and ASEAN have been maintaining a relationship both cooperative and competitive in the textile trade. Due to its labor intensive feature and high dependence on foreign trade , the textile trade has received much attention after the 2008 financial crisis. The customs data (classified by the HS code) from year 2006-2009 is employed to research the impact of the crisis on the trade pattern o...

This article investigates the relationship between the exchange rate and non-oil trade balance in Iran between 1981 and 2014. A structural vector auto-regression model is built. The results indicated that the increasing effect of the real effective exchange rate worsens the non-oil trade balance in the short term. In contrast, the increasing effect of the real effective exchange rate improves t...

In Fiji, imports as a share of GDP has been rising strongly, particularly over the past three decades. Over these years imports have fluctuated considerably, generally in line with fluctuations in aggregate demand. Fiji is a small island state, heavily dependent on external trade for many of our essential goods. It is vital, therefore to always ensure that we have adequate foreign reserves to p...

Title of Document: ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INEQUALITY Lourenço Senne Paz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Nuno Limão Department of Economics In this dissertation I assess the impact of developing country trade liberalization on their wage inequality by focusing on two possible channels, namely job formality and inter-industry wage premium. Informal workers are a larg...

rice comes second after wheat in iran`s food consumption economy. however iran is one of the greatest rice importer countries all over the world because of its rising population and recent growth in gdp. this paper presents an analysis of cointegration test between rice import and it`s economic factors over the period 1990-2011, employing engle-granger model. at first, dickey-fuller test shows ...

rice comes second after wheat in iran`s food consumption economy. however iran is one of the greatest rice importer countries all over the world because of its rising population and recent growth in gdp. this paper presents an analysis of cointegration test between rice import and it`s economic factors over the period 1990-2011, employing engle-granger model. at first, dickey-fuller test shows ...

Crude oil is a necessary commodity for all the economies across Globe. Demand it rising and more so witnessed in developing countries like India. crude has lot of influential counter reactive consequences such as increase import, dependence oil, exchange rate, trade deficit etc. The study examines current state pricing imports into Annual time series data years 2000 to 2021 were used this study...