The objective of this study is to examine the impact of exchange rate on Nigeria’s trade balance. Time series data on trade balance, external reserves, exchange rate, money supply and real GDP were used in the analysis and the data were subjected to unit root tests to determine their time...

The objective of this paper is to test the relationship between the exchange value of the renminbi (RMB) and China’s trade balance over the 1991-1996 period. Using some recent econometric techniques designed to evaluate the existence and the direction of causality, we find no evidence to...

This paper estimates long-run and short-run trade elasticities of export demand for Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. To that end, a traditional export demand model is estimated for all three countries in the study using the bounds test for analyzing level relationships within the...

Using a long-run series of I-O tables, some simple facts are explored with respect to the Italian trade balance in the period 1960-2000. The analysis confirms that the Italian economy underwent a de-specialisation process before the euro era. This phenomenon weakened our export capacity, and in...

Lots of studies were produced in the past decade on the importance of the quality of the institutions for economic development. Several authors focused on the indicators provided by Doing Business (World Bank) to highlight the main factors favouring or rather limiting the economic development....

The aim of this study is to provide a succinct description of the specialisation model of four economies on the southern shores of the Mediterranean (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia) and its recent evolution, concentrating in particular on the merchandise trade. The analysis shows, according...

A defining feature of globalization is the fragmentation of individual blocks of an integrated production process across countries. This necessitates flows of final goods as well as their parts and components back and forth among the involved nations. A depreciation of a country’s currency...

This study measures the spread effects of export expansion in Sri Lanka. Leontief open input-output analysis is used to examine the backward and forward linkages in selected industries in terms of production and employment. The results suggest that the sectoral interdependence of the economy in...

This paper attempts to develop and question the validity of an important demand model incorporating a proxy variable representing exchange rate risk. Given the scenario of a newly industrialising economy such as Korea where the scope of established forward exchange markets are limited,...

In this article the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) theorem in its both the ‘commodity’ and the ‘factor content’ version is examined under the existence of non-factor price equalisation conditions in the bilateral trade between two countries, in a model with three countries and many commodities....