the amount of impacts of changes in world prices on economic indices of a country can be studied focusing economy's openness level and volume of the country's interaction with other countries. the increase in world prices in recent years, in one hand and the consistent increase of domestic inflation in the other hand put special importance upon surveying the impacts level of the world...

The price transmission from the international market to the domestic market of tunas was investigated in the present research. For this purpose, the elasticity of substitution between tuna imports with goods produced in Iran (Armington Elasticity) was calculated. Armington elasticity reflects a degree of substitution between commodities produced domestically and those produced abroad. A greater...

This paper reviews recent developments in China’s fishery and aquaculture sectors, as well as the policies affecting rural households in general and fisheries households in particular. It explores how China’s policies may change as a result of the nation joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001 and the likely impacts of these changes on China’s fishery and aquaculture sector....

A currency area can be a self-validating optimal policy regime, even when monetary unification does not foster real economic integration and intra-industry trade. In our model firms choose the degree of exchange rate pass-through onto export prices accounting for expected monetary policies, and monetary authorities choose optimal policy rules taking firms’ pass-through as given. We show that th...

We present a first analysis of auction markets for specialty food products. We identify auction prices, trade volume and value for domestic and foreign origin specialty ham with geographical indications (GIs) which were actually sold in online auctions in Germany within a one-month period. Applying hedonic modeling, we examine potential factors that may influence online bidding behavior and fin...

Interstate tourism is an important component of the domestic tourism business in Australia. However, empirical analyses of interstate tourism demand have not been previously undertaken. The motivation for this paper is to investigate the shortand long-run causal relationships between economic factors and interstate tourism demand in Australia. Using a cointegration approach, this study discover...

How does an unexpected domestic monetary expansion a¤ect the foreign economy: Does it induce an increase or a decline in foreign production? And is it ’beggar-thy-neighbour’, or does it raise foreign welfare? Empirical evidence from VARs indicates that monetary policy has positive international transmission e¤ects on both foreign output and aggregate demand. A two-country dynamic general equili...

This papers studies how the stabilization role of monetary policy in response to asset price shocks changes with the globalization of financial markets. Changes in asset prices affect production through a credit channel and monetary policy can stabilize the macro-economy with counter-cyclical interventions. The paper shows that, as financial markets become internationally integrated, stabilizat...