Modeling Semiconductor Export Restrictions and the US-China Trade Conflict

Can Increased Trade Prevent Conflict with China?

Intermediate Goods Trade and Macroeconomic Volatility: The Case of Iran-China Trade Relations

This paper tries to analyze the impacts of intermediate goods trade on production, consumption, investment, net exports, employment, labor wage and capital rent of Iran in its bilateral trade relations with China. This analysis has been done by modeling, solving and calibrating an international real business cycles (IRBC) model in period 1980-2009. The results show that when elasticity of subst...

China-US Border Effect of Agricultural Trade Using gravity Model

Two border effect models capturing the characteristics of agricultural trade based on the Gravity Model are put forward to make a study on China-US border effects in the sector of agricultural trade. Different methods are used to check the robustness of the models. Applying the panel data covering 19872005, the empirical results show that the border effects of China-US exist with a great magnit...

Comparing the Active Centers in the Area of Ethics in Science and Technology in the US, UK, China and India

Background: Nowadays, life increasingly relies on inclusive scientific and technological infrastructures. Today, the use of technology has been manifested in all aspects of people's lives, so that decision-making processes in all aspects are based on the indicators of science and technology. Science has even come up with issues such as ethics and tradition, so traditional issues of ethics in th...

Will and Should the U.s. (and Europe) Declare (trade) War on China? the Political Economy of Trade Conflict

Globalization is taking hold of our imagination and of our scientific and political curiosity. Offshore outsourcing, Safeguard clauses against the import of Chinese textiles, anti-dumping measures against all other kinds of imports from the same origin, backlash against Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) are the order of the day and, for some, shaking up trade theory. Should we worry about...