This paper uses regional panel data to investigate the mechanism of how FDI has contributed to China’s regional development through quantifying regional marketization level. It is found that FDI inflow generates a demonstration effect in identifying regional market conditions for investment in fixed assets and hence affects industrial location. In addition, its effects on regional export and re...

This paper investigates the evolution of firm-level price and quality decisions in export markets. We develop a model of heterogeneous firms which endogenously choose their optimal price and product quality to build demand in each export market. Consistent with existing research, more productive firms produce higher quality products, charge higher prices, sell more units and achieve higher prof...

today export considered as important indicators in the global development companies and countries, and given the export orientation and competitive advantage is important to increase export performance. in the present paper, the aim of this study is considering the potential impact of market orientation and competitive advantage of exporters on export performance. population considered for this...

In this study, the situation of Iran, U.S and Turkey's Pistachio export is investigated. to this purpose, Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) Index is calculated based on Agricultural and total economy export, separately, then forecasted by using Auto- Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) approached, for 2008-2013. The results show that considering both commodity baskets, Turkey and Ir...

Today export diversification has become one of the most important economic objectives of development strategies in the developing countries. For various reasons, such as preventing instability in export prices of primary products in global markets, reducing fluctuations in exchanges of them compared with industrial goods, producing dynamic benefits resulted from exporting various goods and incr...

Although primary production in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is not above the world average and carbon burial rates are low, 70% of the world’s opal burial occurs in this zone and it has been suggested that blooms of large diatoms are responsible for this extraordinary situation. Here we compare export fluxes during bloom and steady-state situations near the Antarctic Polar Front in the SE ...

With Location Quotient and Shift-Share-Method, this paper evaluated the competitiveness of manufacturing industries in Hubei province post Financial Crisis Era based on the panel data from 2008 to 2011of Output Value of Industrial Products Sales and Delivery Value for Export of Large and Medium Scale Industrial Enterprises. On basis of these, this paper also put forward some countermeasures to ...