Iran-China relations are deeply rooted in history and have been enhanced recently with bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy, arms sales, trade, political cooperation and cultural ties. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of international outsourcing in form of trading intermediate products on bilateral trade relations between Iran and China. As an empirical work, we h...

A  $ mu $-way  $ G $-trade ($ mu geq 2) $  consists of $ mu $ disjoint decompositions of some simple (underlying) graph $ H $ into copies of a graph $ G. $  The   number of copies of the  graph $ G $ in  each of the decompositions is the volume of the $ G $-trade and   denoted by $ s. $ In this paper, we determine all values  $ s $ for which there exists a $  mu $-way   $ K_{1,m} $-trade of  vo...

We present a theory of why some countries negotiate trade agreements during economic downturns. We argue that political leaders can gain from such agreements because of the signals they send to their publics. Publics are less likely to blame leaders for bad economic conditions when they have implemented sound economic policies, such as signing and implementing agreements designed to liberalize ...

‎A $mu$-way $(v,k,t)$ $trade$ of volume $m$ consists of $mu$‎ ‎disjoint collections $T_1$‎, ‎$T_2‎, ‎dots T_{mu}$‎, ‎each of $m$‎ ‎blocks‎, ‎such that for every $t$-subset of $v$-set $V$ the number of‎ ‎blocks containing this t-subset is the same in each $T_i (1leq‎ ‎i leq mu)$‎. ‎In other words any pair of collections ${T_i,T_j}$‎, ‎$1leq i< j leq mu‎$ is a $(v,k,t)$ trade of volume $m$. In th...

T landscape of the global economy is increasingly dotted with institutions that regulate investment and trade. The number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and preferential trade agreements (PTAs) stand out in this regard, with nearly every country a member of at least one of these institutions, if not many. Yet, for all the scholarly attention paid to investment treaties and trade agreem...

Demonstrating compliance with the applicable regulations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) requires an assessment of the Iong-term performance of the disposal system. Scenario development is one starting point of this assessment, and generates inqui~ about the present state and fiture evolution of the disposal system. Scenario development consists of four tasks: (i) identi&ing and clas...