This study examines the relationship between real exchange rate and trade balance in Cote d'Ivoire during period from 1975 to 2017. The employs ARDL bounds testing approach cointegration developed by Pesaran et al. (2001) examination of this nexus. Cointegration analysis error correction modeling are used determine long run as well short dynamics, balance. empirical results show negative signif...

There is a continuing debate about whether international trade is responsible for the observed skilled-unskilled wage gap. In this paper we present a general equilibrium trade model with differentiated goods. We begin with an analytical model and show how changes in relative factor returns can be decomposed into changes in commodity prices, changes in the trade balance, and changes in the facto...

the mass production of silk and its importance as goods exportable and strategic caused its monopoly by the shah-abbas i (996-1038 a.h.) and then the recruitment of the armenians merchants in his monopoly. therefore, the question is what function had the three related factors (silk, monopoly politics and armenians) in safavids economy and politics. for a careful investigation, after a review of...