Practically all existing studies of British export performance either model export supply in an ad hoc manner without accounting for any interaction between it and export demand and/or impose a simplifying homogeneity assumption on the firms being modeled. In this article, a new two-regime...

Tourism is a key source of income for many small island economies, and so it is important to understand its determinants in such countries. We estimate a tourism demand model for the Maldives' five main source markets and find that, in addition to the usual foreign income and own price...

Thirlwall’s law posits that a country’s economic growth rate (relative to that of the rest of the world) depends on the ratio of its export’s income elasticity of demand to that of its imports. Empirical studies of this hypothesis have been almost entirely supportive, but we argue that the...

Thirlwall’s law of balance-of-payments-constrained growth predicts that an economy’s growth rate is determined by the ratio of its income elasticities of demand for exports and imports, multiplied by the world’s growth rate. Alexander and King (1999) argue that the typically supportive...