The effect of the global financial crisis on the international trade patterns of developed countries has been one of the main focuses of recent studies. However, the dependence level of world trade on emerging markets increases every day. Therefore, it is important to study the level of the negative effect of the crisis on emerging economies and the level of their recovery potential. This paper...

This study estimates the aggregate import demand function for Nigeria for the period of 1980 2010. Cointegration approach was implemented. While the error correction term in the estimated VEC model was evaluated for long run causal relationship, the short term coefficients were gauged for short term causal relationship between the explained and the explanatory variables. Results indicate: (i) t...

The primary objective was to evaluate the extent which foreign exchange restraints import demand in Sierra Leone. Using time series data from 1980 2020, this study determined Leone's function by including constraints a structural model developed Emran and Shilpi (2010). compensated for both short-run long-run links employing an ARDL bounds-testing technique with error-correcting mechanism. resu...

Import demand elasticities are regularly used to compute trade restrictiveness indices, transform estimated effects of policies into ad-valorem equivalents, or judge on the prohibitive ...