the limited data available, the recycling of these resources back to the world economy through the trade channel, via … higher imports, or the financial channel, via an increase in the net external asset position of these countries. Our results … show that around 50% of the windfall revenue has been used to increase imports, while the rest has been directed towards …

In this paper we estimate gravity models to see whether trade volumes of countries in the MENA region are significantly … show that the variables used in standard gravity models cannot explain a significant part of MENA's trade performance …, particularly on exports. We then go on to 'augment' the standard gravity model with relevant variables from the World Bank …

For the first time since the mid-1980s, the Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division is compiling U.S. import statistics … at the state level. What picture emerges from this first look at the state’s imports in some years? …

. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues and international trade developments. …

Using recent regional data from Russia, the pattern of trade of Russia’s regions with the CIS and rest of the world … (non-CIS) is examined using a series of gravity equations. Some evidence of shifting trade patterns toward non …-CIS countries is found, but trade still has an inward orientation from the Soviet era reflecting infrastructure and other ties that …

The purpose of the present paper is to review the sources of France's trade surplus in recent years and to attribute … trade balance movements strictly to those determinants of trade flows suggested by economic theory. These determinants are …

relation between exports and imports for Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand; and finds sustainable long-run trade deficit only for … and effective in leading exports and imports to the long-run steady state equilibrium. However, the paper did not find … cointegration between exports and imports for Malaysia and the Philippines. This result suggests that macroeconomic policies have …