The international trade consists of two components, volume and price. price component is a deflator for trade. Meanwhile, the can be regarded as real condition In this paper, author tries to explain relationship between export import volumes according theoretical basis. response variable quantity (volume) imports exports. control variables, such GDP REER, are in accordance with "imperfect subst...

concerns regarding the trans-pacific partnership (tpp) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. in the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...

This paper analyzes the simplest neoclassical economy in which agents have finite lives and there is sustained per capita growth. The growth rate of the world economy depends upon countries' savings propensities and common technology. Trade can reverse an economy's autarkic growth trajectory, and a country with a high savings rate runs a current account surplus. If a surplus country expands agg...

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...

This thesis is a collection of three essays in international trade. Chapter 1 explains how firm heterogeneity and market structure can distort the geography of international trade. By considering only the intensive margin of trade, Krugman (1980) predicts that a higher elasticity of substitution between goods magnifies the impact of trade barriers on trade flows. In this chapter, I introduce fi...

the least developed and developing countries constitute two third of the members the world trade organizations (wto). these groups of countries have different views and concerns on international trade issues. as far as development is concerned, they have different needs and their economic system is often weak and fragile and therefore, they need extra protection. the wto agreements contain spec...