The contribution of trade openness in economic growth has been the subject of several theoretical and empirical studies in the economic literature. This paper analyzes the impact of trade openness on economic growth in the case of Tunisia using OLS method over the period 1975-2009. The results...

Brazil is one of the largest producer and exporter of condensed milk. Because of it, it is important to analyze the relationship among the Brazilian prices and the main exporters' prices in order to understand if they are integrated and follow the same way in the long run. So, using a...

This article analyses export taxes in a Bertrand duopoly with product differentiation, where a home and a foreign firm both export to a third-country market. It is shown that the maximum-revenue export tax always exceeds the optimum-welfare export tax. In a Nash equilibrium in export taxes, the...

Brazil is one of the largest milk producers in the world. Nevertheless, the country is not a great exporter. In recent years, it exported mainly whole milk powder, condensed milk and cheese. Because whole milk powder is also an important dairy product in the international market, we decided to...

In this paper, we assess the influence of the generalized Nash bargaining model on strategic trade policies. In particular, how the trade policy and the bargaining process over managerial contract are strategically connected within the context of bargaining over the sales delegation model is...

We consider the welfare effect of cross-border merger in presence of international R&D competition. Cross-border merger increases domestic welfare if the bargaining power of the foreign firm and the slope of the marginal cost of R&D are sufficiently low. Otherwise, domestic welfare is lower...

This paper argues that there is a differential behaviour between the richest and the poorest economies in the gravity model framework. Results show that geographical and cultural factors are more important for developing than for developed economies, and a good economic policy in developing...

Applying Atkeson and Kehoe's (2000) dynamic model to the dynamic Chamberlin-Heckscher-Ohlin approach, we examine the role of the timing of development (e.g., the removal of trade barriers) as a determinant of trade patterns.

We empirically analyse the impact of trade on income levels in sub-Saharan African countries. The results indicate that the linkage between these two variables is negative for these countries. This outcome may explain the negative sign of the Africa dummy in income (or growth) regressions.

We examine the role of radical international differences in preferences in determining patterns of international trade, given that the trading countries share a common technology and identical factor endowment ratios. It is characteristic of our model that the equilibrium autarkic commodity...