today export diversification has become one of the most important economic objectives of development strategies in the developing countries. for various reasons, such as preventing instability in export prices of primary products in global markets, reducing fluctuations in exchanges of them compared with industrial goods, producing dynamic benefits resulted from exporting various goods and incr...

in this study, the situation of iran, u.s and turkey's pistachio export is investigated. to this purpose, revealed comparative advantage (rca) index is calculated based on agricultural and total economy export, separately, then forecasted by using auto- regressive integrated moving average (arima) approached, for 2008-2013. the results show that considering both commodity baskets, turkey and ir...

Using novel, high-frequency data on political strikes in Bangladesh, we examine the impact of political violence on firm-level export activity. Our data cover the universe of political strikes and export transactions in Bangladesh during 2010 to 2013. Using an event-study approach, we find that there is a 16.26 percent reduction in the baseline probability of exporting on the day of a strike. M...

In 2011, Switzerland announced a floor for the Swiss franc, and it immediately depreciated by 10 percent. Many argue that depreciations should not matter for Switzerland’s export basket because luxury brands and high value added products predominate, and these should compete on quality rather than price. We measure the sophistication of Swiss exports using Hausmann et al.’s (2007) and Kwan’s (2...

This study investigates for the first time the relative importance of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) in the fluvial carbon flux from an actively eroding peatland catchment in the southern Pennines, UK. Event scale variability in DOC and POC was examined and the annual flux of fluvial organic carbon was estimated for the catchment. At the event scale, both DO...

We review the effects of a dollar appreciation on U.S. inflation, and on U.S. import and export prices. We calibrate the effects to match the 15 percent dollar appreciation that has occurred since June 2014. Pass-through into import prices and consumer prices is modest. Specifically, a 15 percent dollar appreciation should reduce consumer prices by a quarter of a percentage point in the short r...

The importance of drug as a valuable export product in the global economy becomes more clear every day. Understanding the problems of exports and factors affecting it, can be an important step to keep Iran’s position in the world markets and further export development of this product.In this study, Iranian pharmaceutical exports’ supply and demand functions were calculated using co-integration ...