Intra-industry Trade of Transition Countries: Trends and Determinants

Determinants of Iran’s bilateral intra-industry trade in pharmaceutical industry

Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

Country-specific Determinants of Intra Industry Trade Types of Agricultural Sector in Selected Developing Countries

Determinants of Iran’s bilateral intra-industry trade in pharmaceutical industry

Among non-oil exports and in trade arena, drug has always been strategic importance and most government especially industrialized countries pay special attention to its production and trade issues. Thus, having a comprehensive view from economic perspective to this section is essential for suggesting intervention. This was a descriptive-analytical and panel study. In this study, gravity model i...

The Impact of Sanction on Bilateral Intra-Industry Trade between Iran and SCO Countries

This paper analyses the impact of sanctions against Iran in addition to other country-specific determinants on intra-industry trade between Iran and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries over the period 1997-2013. By disentangling total intra-industry trade (IIT) into horizontal and vertical IIT and after investigating bilateral trade pattern between Iran and SCO countries, determin...

Country-specific determinants of horizontal and vertical intra-industry agri-food trade of the Visegrad Countries

The article analyses patterns and country-specific determinants of Visegrad Countries’ (VC) agri-food trade with the European Union. Literature focusing on the country-specific determinants of vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade is rather limited and those analysing agricultural (or agri-food) trade are extremely rare. Therefore, the paper seeks to contribute to the literature by cover...