Based on the recent trade models of the Heterogeneous Firms Trade (HFT) model and the Quality Heterogeneous Firms Trade (QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia and China. However, the overlap o...

abstract according to the importance of date export in iran, this study investigates short run and long run relationship between date export and important economical variable, specifically exchange rate. for this purpose, an autoregressive distributed lag approach (ardl) to cointegration is applied to annually time-series data from 1981 to 2007. results showed that the exchange rate, export pri...

In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for particular firm-product combinations. This cannot be explained by models assuming firmor even firm-product level selection and constant ...

Stakeholders operating within the yam export market lack shopper insights to formulate effective marketing and supply chain management strategies. This paper aims to show how supermarket loyalty card data on yam shoppers in the UK can be analysed to objectively assess marketing performance and prospects through year-on-year comparison of key marketing measures and regression. The results demons...

This paper attempts to examine the impact of major variables affecting export performance of leather goods from Pakistan using primary data source. The exporters from Punjab province were taken as the sampling frame as they share almost 90 percent of total leather exports from Pakistan. In Punjab, leather production and export facilities are primarily located in district Sialkot and Kasur. A re...

S teel industries play a key role in the national economy and welfare of the society in many steel manufacturer countries. It is found that manufacturing and consuming of steel products would be a key indicator to measure and evaluate economic and industrial performance of a country. Nowadays, countries with the large natural oil and gas resources (e.g. Iran) attempt to select an alt...