A large share of world trade, especially among the OECD countries, is two-way trade within industries, so called intra-industry trade. Despite this, few attempts have been made to examine why countries export some products within industries, whereas they import others. We examine this issue, by means of regression analysis, by examining the shares of IIT that are vertical and horizontal and by ...

â â â  â â  abstract: â  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 cris...

The article reveals the trends of Russian intra-industry trade in period 2001–2018 with twenty largest partners, united three groups, namely developed economies, developing countries and CIS states. Intra-industry was estimated using data for export import each 6-digit Harmonized Commodity Description Coding System product groups. authors use Fontanier — Freudenberg Grubel Lloyd indices to dete...

â â â  â  â  abstract â  this paper aims to identify key challenges facing iran and south korea in their bilateral trade and investment relations. in particular, it is concerned with the policy implications which can be useful for policy makers and business people of both countries. for this purpose, we review and analyze the recent developments of the iranian economy and bilateral trade and in...

This paper revisited the link between intra-industry trade (IIT) Portugal and Spain Portuguese carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The research also considers effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on CO2 emissions, pondering arguments pollution haven hypothesis halo hypothesis. As an econometric strategy, this investigation has applied panel data, namely a Pooled Mean Group Autoregressive Dist...

The paper aims to identify patterns and country-specific determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in agri-food products between Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH) other CEFTA 2006 parties the period 2008-2018. purpose is contribute filling gap empirical literature on IIT South East European countries, especially regard non-manufacturing sectors. To investigate intensity structure analysis employed Grub...

Following decisions taken by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders in August 2009, PACER Plus (Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations) negotiations have begun, aiming to deepen economic cooperation between the 14 developing Pacific island countries (PICs) and Australia and New Zealand through a comprehensive, reciprocal regional trade agreement. PACER Plus builds on previous agreements within t...

Literature on the quality and completeness of data and documentation in investigator-initiated research studies is scarce. We carried out a study to compare the quality of data and documentation in an investigator-initiated trial (IIT) with those in an industry-sponsored study. We retrospectively studied the archived data pertaining to 42 patients enrolled in two trials, 14 patients in an indus...