Even if export taxes are frequently used, they have not been the main concerns for trade negotiators and academic researchers contrarily to tariffs. This paper aims at providing the rationales for the use of export taxes that are not obvious considering mercantilist driven trade policies. We summarize the effects of export taxes using both a partial and a general equilibrium theoretical model. ...

While there is an increasing realization of the potential that IT offers for human welfare, IT-induced productivity and growth are confined to the developed world. It is argued that even though the international digital divide is a reality, there are certain specific characteristics of the new technology that leave scope for mitigating, if not totally bridging, the gap when appropriate policies...

raisin is one of the most important agricultural products in iran. iran after the turkey and america countries is the third largest exporter of raisin in world. using the indices of export advantage, import advantage, concentration ratios and the herfindahl-hirschman, have been analyzed to check the state trade and market structure of export and import of raisin product in the world during 2001...

Sixteen supply-side and seven demand-side export promoting policies were simulated and examined for export and associated employment impacts. Policy design considered the spatial distributions of export promoting and constraining variables defined within the Tiberi-Vipraio Hodgkinson (TVH) regional innovation context typology (2000), and examined movements in their value-added industry support ...

Exchange rate pass-through to the price of traded goods is one of the important issues in economy of developing countries such as Iran and affects the efficiency of the exchange rate policies to improve the trade balance. The main aim of this paper is to empirically analyze exchange rate pass-through to Iran's saffron export price using panel data for twenty destination markets during 2000–2011...

If product demand from abroad has a low correlation with domestic demand, we would expect export-intensive firms to have greater cashflow stability than firms that only sell domestically. This implies that they would also be able to support higher financial leverage. We test this hypothesis by looking at a sample of Indian firms. The hypothesis is tentatively accepted. Export Intensity and Fina...

 Based on the recent literature of heterogeneous firms, productive firms self select themselves into foreign markets. In this framework, there is a productivity rise prior to exporting. On the other words, different export performance across firms is linked to their heterogeneity.   The main purpose of the present paper is to examine the so-called hypothesis of heterogeneous firm in Iran. For ...

exchange rate pass-through to the price of traded goods is one of the important issues in economy of developing countries such as iran and affects the efficiency of the exchange rate policies to improve the trade balance. the main aim of this paper is to empirically analyze exchange rate pass-through to iran's saffron export price using panel data for twenty destination markets during 2000...

exchange rate pass-through to the price of traded goods is one of the important issues in economy of developing countries such as iran and affects the efficiency of the exchange rate policies to improve the trade balance. the main aim of this paper is to empirically analyze exchange rate pass-through to iran's saffron export price using panel data for twenty destination markets during 2000–2011...