This research offers an empirical analysis of the economic effects on Morocco from implementing a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the European Union (EU) signed in 1996. Since the FTA translates largely into unilateral discriminatory tariff elimination against EU imports, there are concerns about the...

Economists are challenged to account for the influence of cultural norms and expectations on economic behavior. Recent experimental economic evidence suggests culture significantly affects certain economic behavior. It is not clear, however, how pervasive culture's influence is on multiple...

A dynamic, game theoretic model with switching costs provides better understanding of motives that keep export subsidies a part of exporters' agricultural policies. Switching costs include factors, such as transactions costs and political considerations, that affect an importer's purchasing...

The European Union (EU) is perhaps the only regional integration scheme that has remained viable and grown successfully over the years. The proposed accession of the ten Central and East European Countries (CEECs) to the fifteen-nation EU (EU-15), to form a twenty-five nation customs union, has...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations has made crop projections for the years 2015 and 2030. These projections, if met, will halve the incidence of undernourishment by 2015. Because of the significance of fertilizer in crop production, the amount of fertilizer to support...

Small rural non-farm firms are an important part of the manufacturing subsector in Thailand. They provide exports which improve the balance of payments and help create jobs for rural people. They are one of the major sources of income for rural people. This study had four objectives: to describe...

As a developing nation in the process of undergoing successful and relatively equitable development, Vietnam is recognized as an example of the potential opportunities afforded by a successful trade driven development strategy. Improved understanding of the linkages between trade, growth, and...

The purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of the impact of experience on performance, the farm versus nonfarm self-employed, and the impact of government expenditures on firm birth from an entrepreneurial perspective. Throughout the entrepreneurial literature, it has been...

Time series analysis of commodity prices is one of the ongoing developments in relevant empirical studies. The usual research questions are what causes a certain price behavior and what are the consequences. As causes and consequences are sequential events, time is the natural domain of...