The standard theory of international trade almost implies that trade patterns are highly static and persistent. Therefore, the issue of trade duration is generally ignored in these standard trade models. The literature on trade duration has been popular since the seminal works by Besedes and...

Turkey has started to implement the export-oriented foreign trade strategy in place of foreign trade importsubstitution strategy with the decisions of January 24, 1980. The 1980s, that began to implement the export-oriented foreign trade strategy,was a period in which economic and trade...

The Republic of Azerbaijan is one of the oil and gas rich countires of the former Soviet Union. After the second stage of the Shah Deniz gas field, natural gas exltation and exportation became one of the key issues in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas stategy. Diversification of the oil and gas...

General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), one of the legal documents in the Appendix to the agreement that had established WTO, is the first multi-lateral agreement that defines and delineates the basic concepts, rules and principals of international trade in services. This paper discusses...

Bu calismanin temel amaci, 1989-2004 donemine iliskin Turkiye ithalatinin belirleyicilerini tespit etmek ve tahmin sonuclarindan hareketle politika onerisinde bulunmaktir. Bu cercevede, Engle-Granger iki asamali tahmin yontemi kullanilarak uzun donem ithalat talebi tahmin edilmis ve buradan...