... on the upswing. The purpose of this study to investigate the effect of infrastructure on exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow in selected Southeast Asian economies. Design/methodology/approach This study employs the pooled mean group (PMG) technique to velaborate that how the infrastructure...

...Kowsar Yousefi; Seyed Ali Madnanizdeh; Fateme Zahra Sobhani Purpose Does the long-term growth rate of a firm increase by exporting? If yes, how large is that increase in a developing economy? The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The authors incorporate data from...

...Stefano Iandolo; Anna Maria Ferragina Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the joint effect of persistency in innovation and export on firms’ total factor productivity. In particular, the aim is to determine if exporting in international markets along subsequent periods, and being also...

...Obiora G. Okechukwu; Glauco De Vita; Yun Luo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the foreign direct investment (FDI)–exports relationship in Nigeria using disaggregated FDI and export data. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies the autoregressive distributed lag...

...Long Zhao; Zuanshi Liu; William Wei; Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue that financial development, measured by private credit in the economy, affects exports in an inverted U-shaped manner. The authors use the new trade theory model and empirical data...

...Huseyin Karamelikli; Guray Akalin; Unal Arslan Huseyin Karamelikli can be contacted at: hakperest@gmail.com In this study, the relationship between oil exports (expre), non-oil exports (exp), imports (İmp) and economic growth (Gdp) is tested by using OPEC’s annually published Annual...

... contribution to manufacturing productivity, but it is much lower as compared to local workers. However, the author observe the declining capital-labour ratio with the increase in the flow of foreign workers. This is expected to have direct impact on the competitiveness of the manufacturing in the export market...

...Augustine C. Arize Applies new tests for parameter instability in cointegrated models to evaluate the traditional export demand function. The determinants of exports considered are world real income, export price and competitors’ export price. The data for Singapore (a newly industrializing economy...

...Hongwei Du; Zhen Zhu This paper provides some additional empirical evidence on the effect of exchange‐rate volatility on exports. The novelties of the study include: a regime‐switching model in conditional volatility is employed to better capture the exchange‐rate uncertainty; a 2SLS method...

...Peter Wilson Compares changes in the competitive position of six Dynamic Asian Economies (DAEs) – Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong – exporting to the USA, Japan and the European Union (EU) between 1983 and 1995. Dynamic shift‐share methods are applied to two digit data...

... and stage of economic development establish even more extensive commercial links with one another, this raises fresh policy issues, but also theoretical challenges. Democracy Trading companies Export Economic conditions International trade In this essay we shed light on the problems arising from...

...Stephen Martin Following the Gulf War, international discussions took place about multilateral restraints on “destabilising arms transfers”. Given that the UK is one of the leading exporters of arms, any reduction in such exports would affect the UK economy. The UK government spends considerable...

...Farhang Niroomand; Edward Nissan The ratio of exports plus imports to gross national product may be viewed as a measure of openness in international trade. Constructs indexes for 1967, 1980 and 1988, using this ratio for cross‐country comparison of trade patterns. Analysis of variance...

...Noel D. Uri; Bengt Hyberg Addresses whether the grain quality factors used by the Federal Grain Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture in determining the quality grades of wheat exported by the USA including test weight, dockage, moisture content, percentage of foreign material...

...Peter Wilson Investigates the time series relationship between export earnings instability and instability in receipts from international tourism for Singapore between 1972 and 1988. Computes four standardized instability indexes for both merchandize exports and international travel receipts,having...

...Tim Ensor The decline in cigarette consumption within developed countries makes the exploitation of new markets particularly important to tobacco companies. UK data on exports is used to show that, by splitting the sample into three groups, income and prices have significant but different effects...

... by such policies exceed the equivalent policy gains where international migration and remittances are absent. Migrant workers Export Macroeconomics Business policy International Migration and Remittances in a Two-country Temporary Equilibrium Model Panos Hatzipanayotou The University of Connecticut, USA...

...A. Chowdhury; C.H. Kirkpatrick The article examines the impact of changing human resource endowments on the factor intensity and commodity composition of manufacturing exports in the ASEAN economies. There is evidence that skill and human capital endowments over the period 1970‐83 have increased...

...S.H. Samiei A switching regression model is employed to test for the presence of financial constraints in the determination of oil exporters′ imports from industrial countries. The main assumption of the model is the exogenous determination of this bloc′s terms of trade. The analysis uses both...

...Ghulam Sarwar; Dale G. Anderson A simultaneous equation model is used to estimate export demand and supply functions for US soybeans. Price, income, exchange rate and other effects on exports to four world regions are estimated. Inclusion of export supply relationships have very significant...