Characteristics and community evolution patterns of the international scrap metal trade

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

Essays on Patterns of International Trade

This paper investigates how the fraction of exporting firms among domestic firms in a country differs across industries, depending on the country’s comparative advantage. Although it is a known stylized fact that some firms export while others do not, the variation of the shares of exporters across industries, as well as across countries within the same industry, has been little explored. This ...

Patterns and Determinants of International Trade Costs in the Food

This paper documents patterns in international trade costs in processed foods for a large cross-section of developing and developed countries, during the 1976-2000 period. A trade costs index is inferred from a micro-founded gravity equation that incorporates bilateral ‘iceberg’ trade costs. For 2000, the weighted average tariff equivalent of trade costs ranges from 73% for the North to 134% fo...

Identifying the Community Structure of the International-Trade Multi Network

We study the community structure of the multi-network of commodity-specific trade relations among world countries over the 1992-2003 period. We compare structures across commodities and time by means of the normalized mutual information index (NMI). We also compare them with exogenous community structures induced by geographical distances and regional trade agreements. We find that commodityspe...

An Experimental Investigation of the Patterns of International Trade