from the perspective of new growth models and new international trade theories, both exports and imports play an important role in a dynamic economy. economically, we cannot merely emphasize on a positive trade balance and we ignore the benefits of imports, and also we cannot advise negative trade balance. but the main concern of policy makers about international trade should be making stabilit...

interest rate ad valorem tariffs are considered as the most prominent trade tools extensively used in the framework of spatial equilibrium models (sems) to analyze agricultural and food trade policies around the world. however the results obtained from such models have been criticized because of their inadequacy in producing any observed data within the base period. hence a positive spatial and...

abstract this study uses gravity model to examine the most important determinants of was agricultural trade. to this aim, import and export statistics of iran agricultural products for the period 1380 to 1387 was provided from iran customs organization and other information was obtained from different internet bases. random effects estimating and hausman test ratio result in fixed effects model...

abstract the objective of this study is to investigate the long run and short run interactions between agricultural trade liberalization and shares of the two sectors of agriculture and services in the total export and import products and services of iran during the years 1961-2008. to figure out interactions, the vector correction model was used. the ratio of the sum of imports and exports to ...

In this article, the reasonswhydeveloping countries trade fewer agricultural products than developed countries are analyzed. Based on earlier findings that low trade volume in the agricultural sector is due to high trade costs, the focus is on evaluating the extent to which bilateral trade costs in the agricultural sector differ among trading partners. Using a neo-Ricardian trade model, the res...

From the perspective of new growth models and new international trade theories, both exports and imports play an important role in a dynamic economy. Economically, we cannot merely emphasize on a positive trade balance and we ignore the benefits of imports, and also we cannot advise negative trade balance. But the main concern of policy makers about international trade should be making stabilit...

The effects of the institutional determinants on trade in agricultural and food products are analyzed using a gravity model approach. We focus on the impact of the quality of governance and the similarity of institutions in explaining variation in bilateral agricultural and food trade patterns among the OECD countries. Results confirmed the separate effects for the institutional similarity and ...

Two border effect models capturing the characteristics of agricultural trade based on the Gravity Model are put forward to make a study on China-US border effects in the sector of agricultural trade. Different methods are used to check the robustness of the models. Applying the panel data covering 19872005, the empirical results show that the border effects of China-US exist with a great magnit...

the augmented gravity model was employed to determine iran's trading model and agricultural export directions in the case of cross section analysis in 2005 for 64 countries which are considered as iran's main export market. besides, another explanatory variable named trade conformity index (tci) was added to the model. this index was employed to identify iran's trading model. als...