The welfare aspects of dual exchange rate systems are analyzed in this paper. The requirement that domestic linancial transactions with the rest of the world be undertaken at a special foreign exchange rate is found to be equivalent to levying a tariff on this class of international transactions. Hence, a dual exchange rate system and capital controls are shown to be essentially identical. In l...

Through international trade, a country with other countries can interact and cooperate in the export import of goods services. Indonesia's export-import trade transactions trading partner have undergone structural changes. This change was caused by start industrialization process early 1990s. study conducted to find out how its partners ASEAN (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines...

w hether the united kingdom (uk) should remain in the european :union: (eu) or not has been a fiercely debated issue both before and after the referendum in the uk on june 23, 2016. the main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the pros and cons of the uk leaving the eu. it is concluded that if the uk leaves the eu, the resulting economic shock would risk adverse effects on macroeconomic variab...

This paper explores the link between foreign direct investment and trade in a panel of four countries that will accede to the European Union in 2004: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. We augment standard demand-side export and import equations with a measure of FDI penetration. We compare results based on a panel mean-group estimator with a fixed-effects panel model that allows ...

The paper analyzes the interactions between the precision of information, trade and welfare within a decision framework of an exporting firm. Information in a financial market is described in terms of a publicly observable signal. With higher transparency, the signal conveys more precise information about the random foreign exchange rate. More precise information about exchange rate changes has...

The effective factors on the economic growth of Iran during the first 5-year development plan are studied. The main characteristics of this period are that the first development plan began after the end of war during which some of the unused capacities of the war period were utilized. While the budget deficit was continued in this period the government also pursued policies such as devaluation ...

nowadays, non-oil exports growth and increase of share in the world trade with the aim of stopping the dependence of irans economy on oil are considered an important responsibility for the decision-makers in the state and a crucial economic goal as well. thus from among the factors influencing non-oil exports, the exchange rate policies have always played a very important role. this paper tries...

I n his 1952 A Geometry of International Trade, Nobel Laureate James Meade presented the definitive modern version of the celebrated reciprocaldemand, or offer-curve, diagram of the trade theorist. The diagram features curves depicting alternative quantities of exports and imports countries are willing to trade at all possible prices (see Figure 1). Let two countries, home and foreign, trade tw...

the effective factors on the economic growth of iran during the first 5-year development plan are studied. the main characteristics of this period are that the first development plan began after the end of war during which some of the unused capacities of the war period were utilized. while the budget deficit was continued in this period the government also pursued policies such as devaluation ...

Maximum residue levels (MRLs) regulations in plant products can create unnecessary trade barriers on one hand and enhance demand via risk mitigation or quality assurance on the other. We stipulate a generalized gravity equation model to disentangle the effects of MRLs on the import demand and foreign exporters’ supply. Applying the framework to the MRLs on pesticides imposed by high-income OECD...