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Economic sentiment indicators and foreign direct investment : empirical evidence from European Union countries

Cieślik, Andrzej; Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021

foreign direct investment (FDI) across European Union (EU) member states. Based on the knowledge-capital model, the study … across EU member states during the period 2003-2017. The empirical evidence suggests that better economic sentiment in an EU … Member State induces MNEs to undertake FDI in that country, while worse economic sentiment in an EU member state motivates an …

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Impact of technical barriers to trade on the trade in goods in the information and communications technology sector : differentiating by aim of the regulatory measure

Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021

In this modern digital world, goods from the information and communications technology (ICT) sector are the engine of the global economy. While tariffs levied on ICT goods have been eliminated or significantly reduced since the conclusion in December 1996 of the Information Technology Agreement...

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Non-tariff measures and the quality of imported products

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Stehrer, Robert - 2020

Eight multilateral rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and international agreements under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have contributed significantly to the reduction of tariffs among WTO members. However, over the years legitimate reasons for the...

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Determinants of specific trade concerns raised on technical barriers to trade

Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2015

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The impact of the EAEU-Iran preferential trade agreement

Adarov, Amat; Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2020

The preferential trade agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Iran on mutual trade entered into force in October 2019. In this report we estimate its expected impact at aggregate and sectoral levels using the gravity model of trade based on the global sample of bilateral trade...

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The impact of sanctions imposed by the European Union against Iran on their bilateral trade : general versus targeted sanctions

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Karamelikli, Hüseyin - 2020

EU has been implementing general sanctions against the whole economy of Iran, affecting their trade relations. Since 2007 …, and following the imposition of sanctions by the UN Security Council, the EU has also implemented smart sanctions … distributed lag (NARDL), this paper investigates the impact of general and targeted EU sanctions against Iran on quarterly …

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Regulatory convergence within technical barriers to trade

Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2023

This paper analyses how regulatory convergence in different categories of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) imposed on imports of goods in information and communications technology (ICT) globally affected the values, volumes, and unit values of imported goods during the period 1996-2019....

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Salmonella program in the European Union and the trade dispute with Brazil at the World Trade Organisation : a partial equilibrium framework

Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2022

data on the production and importation of prepared poultry in the EU. This paper focusses on the recent Dispute Settlement … (DS) case 607 at the World Trade Organization (WTO) that was initiated by Brazil in November 2021 to consult with the EU … the comprehensive and restrictive programme legislated by the EU to combat salmonella spp. The findings suggest that the …

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