This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between exports and imports of the Iranian economy by … between imports and exports over the sample period, 1960-2007. This result confirms the finding of Arize (Imports and Exports …

. Secondly, the authors estimate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of exports and imports using dynamic … imports than for exports pointing to the existence of sunk costs in both activities. Moreover, past productivity does affect … the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import …

variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. In addition the authors …

We assess the role of capital goods imports and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) as transmission channels …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

important are these trading blocs to the country's exports? How important is the country's location and size, and how do these …. This suggests that the exports from small remote economies are driven by different factors than exports from large conomies. …