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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between border trade and economic growth of Yunnan province, China and Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Countries, which is represented by border import, border export and real GDP. We use annual data of Yunnan province and GMS countries from...
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Remittances are one of the major driving forces of economic growth in Bangladesh. The paper's main objective is to empirically investigate the effect of COVID-19 on the remittance inflow to Bangladesh using a gravity model framework. We have employed monthly data of remittance inflow to...
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The existing literature on COVID-19 has been dominated by medical sciences as well as epidemiological studies related to different public health reasons or disease related issues. Using the data set of 8 variables of Roser et al. (2020) from Our World in Data we have tested several propositions...
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A limited number of studies have tested the J-Curve phenomenon using bilateral trade data between the United States and its major trading partners. In this paper, we test the J-Curve hypothesis by using quarterly bilateral data over the 1973-98 period between Japan and its nine major trading...
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In theoretical literature, smuggling is considered as a factor contributing to the deviation of the PPP-based exchange rates from the equilibrium exchange rates with little empirical support. In this paper, we used panel data for 33 developing countries over the period 1982-1995 and used panel...
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Empirical studies pertaining to the impact of smuggling on the black mar-ket premium (BMP) are very rare in the literature. This paper adds to the literature on the relation between smuggling and the black market premium in the foreign exchange market by pooling data from 70 countries over the...
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The traditional way of assessing the impact of currency depreciation on the trade balance has been to estimate the elasticity of trade volume to relative prices. To this end, most previous studies used aggregate trade data. To shy away from problems associated with using aggregate data, recent...
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The traditional way of assessing the impact of currency depreciation on the trade balance has been to estimate the import and export demand elasticities using aggregate trade data and check the Marshall–Lerner condition. To reduce the aggregation bias, the trend now is to estimate these...
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