A foreign exchange rate is one factor that drives U.S. agricultural trade. Considering this fact, the impact of asymmetric exchange rate changes on U.S. agricultural trade with major trading partners are analyzed. We employ a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model to analyze the...

This study evaluates the relationship between real exchange rate and trade balance prevailed in Pakistan during the 1985-2010 period. Engel Granger residual based and Johansen Juselius tests have been used to inquire into the long term connection between exchange rate and trade balance. Error...

This paper analyses the short- and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development in a panel including data on 35 European countries over the period 2001-2019. For this purpose, it uses the PMG (pooled mean group) estimator for dynamic panels developed by Pesaran et al. (1999). The...

This study estimates the Nigerian import demand function with the view to finding the degree of responsiveness of imports to domestic product prices while controlling for exchange rate (EXR), gross domestic product and foreign reserves. To refine inference about stationarity in the presence of...

Using a dataset of 101 countries over the 1960–2011 period, we examine the relationship between the real effective exchange rate (REER), on the one hand, and trade openness, trade balance, the terms of trade, factor productivity, and exchange rate regime, on the other one. We use new...

Purpose This study estimated total import demand elasticities concerning income, import prices and domestic prices. A high propensity to import constitutes a significant obstacle to economic growth in Mexico since the benefits of increased exports or any other aggregate demand expansion leak to...

Throughout Pakistan's history, policy has sought to promote exports through government support and incentives. The government machinery is geared to export promotion especially through direct and indirect subsidies. Surprisingly, these policies have been continued without serious examination....

This paper estimates disaggregated import demand function for Nigeria using annual data from 1970 to 2019. The study employs the Zivot-Andrews unit root and Gregory-Hansen cointegration tests to account for the role of structural breaks and the error correction mechanism for shortrun analysis,...

This study examines the J-Curve phenomenon of a developing country for the case of Ghana and its major trade partners: Switzerland (Swiss) and China. Using quarterly bilateral data from Q1-1995 to Q4-2018 to investigate the impact of currency depreciation on the bilateral trade balance in the...

This paper analyses the short- and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development in a panel including data on 35 European countries over the period 2001-2019. For this purpose, it uses the PMG (pooled mean group) estimator for dynamic panels developed by Pesaran et al. (1999). The...