The thesis uses the end of the Multi-Fibre Agreement to test the theory of quality-upgrading, which states that firms facing quotas will export higher-quality products to generate the greatest economic rent from each individual exported good. The Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA) is a set of quantitative restrictions placed by the US on textile exports from Asian nations that began in 1974 and ended ...

The study has examined the growth performance and identified determinants of rice exports from India with special reference to basmati rice during the period 1980-81 to 2012-13. Compound growth rate, instability index and Markov chain analysis, were applied to estimate trend, and instability and the project export to different countries. The time series data were made stationary before estimati...

According to international trade theories, countries attempt to produce and export commodities with their abundant resources. Iran has great energy resources and availability of inexpensive energy input has increased energy consumption per capita in manufacturing sector as well as in consuming sector. Relying on low energy price, manufacturers employ energy-intensive methods for producing and e...

This paper investigates the evolution of firm-level price and quality decisions in export markets. We develop a model of heterogeneous firms which endogenously choose their optimal price and product quality to build demand in each export market. Consistent with existing research, more productive firms produce higher quality products, charge higher prices, sell more units and achieve higher prof...

Price indices are constructed to represent a population by using a sample of household expenditure information as weights. This expenditure information must be aggregated across households. In most cases, including the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI), the aggregation method used corresponds to a plutocratic index. Other types of aggregation, such as the democratic index, are also possible, and,...

The measurement of price changes, economic welfare, and demand parameters is currently based on three disjoint approaches: macroeconomic models derived from time-invariant utility functions, microeconomic estimation based on time-varying utility (demand) systems, and actual price and real output data constructed using formulas that di�er from either approach. The inconsistencies are so deep tha...

In this work we took advantage of AI technique (data mining) to analyze the dataset of Corporate Goods Price Index (simple for CGPI). The public-use dataset from Chinese Bank is used in this research. We carry out a thorough research, and compare twenty-four kinds of different models and present the optimal results.

successful export of a commodity is closely dependent upon observing the related international standards. aflatoxin standard is an important index of pistachio import/export market. a lot of pistachio consignments are annually rejected because of being infected with aflatoxin. this results in export market's instability and fluctuations. the role of aflatoxin contammination in pistachio ma...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) attempts to answer the question of how much more (or less) income does a consumer require to be as well off in period 1 as in period given changes in prices, changes in the quality of goods, and the introduction of new goods (or the disappearance of existing goods). The CPI has not attempted to estimate the effect of the introduction of new goods, despite the reco...