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Are Current Account Deficits Sustainable? New Evidence from Iran Using Bounds Test Approach to Level Relationship

Heidari, Hassan - 2012

This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between exports and imports of the Iranian economy by employing bounds test approach to level relationship. In Iran, there have been many unusual policy changes and/or external shocks to the economy which resulted in the occurrence of...

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The Economic Effects of Croatia's Accession to the EU

Lejour, Arjan - 2011

We explore the economic implications of the possible accession of Croatia to the European Union. We focus on two main changes associated with the EU-membership: accession to the internal European Market and institutional reforms in Croatia triggered by the EU-membership. consumption per capita...

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Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2011

This paper develops a model for analyzing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...

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Small Trade Flows, Compliance Costs and Trade Preferences : The Case of EU Imports from African LDCs

Nilsson, Lars - 2012

Previous work has shown that a significant number of preference eligible goods are imported into the EU from developing countries at relatively small values and that the rate of preference utilisation of these imports are low and in many cases zero. This fact is unobserved in the aggregate...

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Deep Trade Policy Options for Armenia : The Importance of Trade Facilitation, Services and Standards Liberalization

Jensen, Jesper - 2011

impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or … multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia … gains are: (i) trade facilitation and reduction in border costs; (ii) services liberalization; and (iii) standards …

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Openness to International Trade and Economic Growth : A Cross-Country Empirical Investigation

Ulasan, Buelent - 2012

In this paper, we revisit the empirical evidence on the relationship between trade openness and long-run economic … reassesses the openness-growth nexus over a much longer sample period, enabling us to better account both trade policy stance and … literature rather than relying on a few proxy variables. We also construct three additional composite trade policy indexes …

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