The paper investigates price and quality competitiveness and comparative advantage in the new and old European Union Member States’ agri-food trade on the global market between 2000 and 2011. The empirical results show that the new and old Member States have become more similar in successful agri-food competitiveness and comparative advantages. The shares of successful price and successful qual...

Recent empirical and theoretical studies have identified product quality as an important determinant of bilateral trade flows. Yet relatively little is understood about the relationship between the characteristics of the export market and the quality of products. In this paper we examine this link using Chinese data. We find evidence that product unit values vary with standard gravity variables...

While there is evidence that politics matter for international cooperation, the impact on economic integration of the quality of institutions has been given short shrift in the previous literature. I argue that the quality of institutions—control of corruption and enforcement of the rule of law, in particular—raises the quantity and the quality of information available to potential member state...

Objective: One of the common tools used to make pre-trade transparency in financial markets is the Limit Order Book. In spite of several researches on the Limit Order Book, there is no consensus about the impact of increasing pre-trade transparency on market quality. Increasing the number of Limit Order Book levels from 3 to 5 levels, in May 2017, for online traders in Tehran Stock Exchange, ga...

introduction: equitable access to a basic set of health services at minimum quality and   affordable price is the right of every citizen and in all countries the governments have the duty to deliver these services to the population. international trade in health services influences the balance between equitable distribution of these services, creating incentives to improve the efficiency of hea...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The impact of international trade on economic welfare 3. The interaction between international trade, the environment and sustainable development: traditional theoretical approaches 3.1. The impact of environmental quality on international trade 3.2. The impact of international trade and international trade policy on the environment and environmental policies 3.3. Im...

one of the main problems in the quality control of rivers is the high control cost imposed upon pollutant units. the cooperative policy approach in the treatment process between two or more pollutant units is a new and economic perspective in the environmental management of catchment basins. origins of large amounts pollutants which require a high cost to control pollution are trying to start p...

Energy consumption has become one of the important system properties that should be controlled by embedded control software. There is usually an inherent trade-off between energy consumption and several system qualities. As such, optimization techniques should be adopted for making the desired trade-off among quality attributes. Implementations of these techniques are usually ad-hoc and system-...

The success of a software project is strongly related with architectural design. However, designing the right Software Architecture is a very subjective task and takes a long time, being much influenced by architect’s experience and the quality of requirements engineering. A big problem emerges when the trade-off among quality requirements is not properly solved during requirements engineering....