Even if export taxes are frequently used, they have not been the main concerns for trade negotiators and academic researchers contrarily to tariffs. This paper aims at providing the rationales for the use of export taxes that are not obvious considering mercantilist driven trade policies. We summarize the effects of export taxes using both a partial and a general equilibrium theoretical model. ...

virtual water adds a new dimension to crop trades and provides a new way of thinking about water scarcity. a systematic analysis of virtual water flows requires integration of all critical drivers of virtual water flows under a single consistent framework. the aim of this study was to assess virtual water flows related to trades of grain crops (wheat, corn, rice, and coarse cereals) and their i...

the dependence of iran's economy to oil revenues and affecting the political and economic issues on income have caused the vulnerability of the economy. one way to meet these challenges is expanding such products, on the one hand improving the domestic economy and on the other hand increasing the exports. among the agricultural products, medicinal plants have a special role in the domestic...

in this study, the social welfare impacts of the interaction of iranian rice import policies and thai export policies are analyzed using a game theoretic approach in conjunction with econometric supply and demand models. the joint impacts of increasing the world price of rice, resulting from the export policies in thailand along with changes in tariff rates in iran, on social welfare are analyz...

This paper investigates the implications of endogenous trade participation for international business cycles, trade flow dynamics and exchange rate pass-through when price adjustments are staggered across firms. I develop a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model wherein firms make state-dependent decisions on entry and exit in the export market and the frequency of price adjus...

This note examines the rank correlation of export price markups and industrial concentration in German and Japanese manufactures in 1984 and 1986. It gives the most current measures of Japanese manufacturing concentration available in English.

Firms sometimes write price lists or catalogs for their exports, so they set prices for a period of time and do not adjust prices during that interval in response to changes in their environment. The firm sets the price either in its own currency or the importer’s currency. This paper draws a simple link between the choice of currency and the pricing decision of a firm that changes prices in re...