one of the main principles of resistance economy, is to support domestic production and limiting imports, especially in sectors where there is the possibility of import-substituting production .this requires adjustment of exact trade policies,and to achieve this, identifying the structure of imports demand function and also price and income elasticity of import demand is necessary.this necessit...

International trade has been paramount to every country, especially developing economies, as it enables them access goods and services they cannot produce. The Ghanaian economy highly dependent on imports over the years. This study examined effects of foreign (export import) economic growth using data from World Bank 1990 2020. To ensure accuracy results, econometric methods including a unit ro...

Imports are increasingly becoming a significant source of Japan’s pork supply. Japan’s share of imports to total consumption increased from 9 percent in 1980 to 24 percent in 1990, reaching a maximum of 44 percent in 1996. Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) safeguard provisions for pork, Japan can raise its gate price by 24 percent when imports in a given quarter are 119 percent higher th...

One of the most striking aspects of the recent recession is the collapse in international trade. This paper uses disaggregated data on U.S. imports and exports to shed light on the anatomy of this collapse. We find that the recent reduction in trade relative to overall economic activity is far larger than in previous downturns. Information on quantities and prices of both domestic absorption an...

What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers using product-level import data for a panel of Hungarian manufacturing firms from 1992 to 2001. In our model with heterogenous firms, producers choose to import or purchase domestically varieties of intermediate inputs. Imports affect firm productivity through expanding variety as...

The relationship between exports, imports and economic growth of Ethiopia has been investigated in this paper for the period 1981-2018 by using annual data from World Bank. For analysis, Vector Auto Regressive Model, Johansen co-integration analysis Granger-Causality tests were implemented. outcome reveals that there is no relation Ethiopia. Conversely, we found a strong evidence bidirectional ...