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 …

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. …

determinants of inflation differentials in a panel of the states of the Euro area in 1999–2007 using alternative classifications of …

lower real GDP permanently or whether we can expect a rebound to earlier trend levels. Using a recent quantile … autoregression unit root test we check whether shocks to real GDP have permanent or temporary effects. In contrast to earlier studies … root hypothesis at the conditional mean of GDP, but also in the tails of the distribution where the lower tail corresponds …

product (GDP) in current and constant dollars of many countries during the times of recession and recovery. We then argue that …

prices), which is typically ignored in existing empirical studies. We use time series and up-to-date panel data techniques to … estimation. The main finding is that allowing for possible breaks around the formation of EMU and the appreciation of the euro …