... explores the economic roots of interstate conflicts—emphasizing resource allocation, representation, and inequality—far less attention has been paid to how international trade influences domestic stability. Globalization has intensified income disparities, labor market polarization, and regional imbalances...

...David Aboagye Danquah; Emmanuel Mensah Purpose This study assesses the threshold impact of public investment, private investment, and public-private partnerships (PPPs) on enhancing the international trade capabilities of emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Design/methodology...

... export intensity and female labor force participation is stronger for states with favorable gender norms and higher occupational mobility of women. Originality/value The study employs a unique identification strategy that exploits the geographic variation in exposure to international trade...

..., economic relations, such as trade, can mitigate the impacts of oil price shocks on both groups. In this paper, the authors aim at estimating the effects of oil price shocks on the major net oil-exporting and net oil-importing countries while accounting for international trade. Design/methodology...

... but follow a power law. This finding means the largest countries disproportionately impact world inflation. In addition, the authors find that countries with higher relative weight in international trade determine a portion of international spillovers greater than their trade share. Moreover, eight big...

...Tina T. Swan; Bruce Q. Swan; Zuopeng (Justin) Zhang Purpose We address the question of how the Internet promotes international trade volume, and especially, whether the global human resources affect the bilateral international trade during the technology development across countries. Design...

... ( x i + y i ) 2 / 2 , tariff revenues t i x i , and disutility from environmental pollution. International trade Consumption-generated pollution Trade policy Commodity taxes F12 F18 This study employs a reciprocal dumping model of trade...

...Rahul Nath Choudhury Purpose The technological progress has made it possible to transform a physical good into a digital one. This development has influenced international trade and a large volume of these digitisable items are increasingly crossing national boundaries. Goods like books, music...

...-documented in the literature of international trade. Exporters are on average larger in size variables like employment, sales, production, investment and payments, in addition to being more productive. Bernard et al. (1995) lead the pack in outlining these facts using the data of US manufacturing...

...' relative productivities vary substantially across industries, so that in a model of international trade based on differences in technology, technological specialization affects export dynamics, in a sense that each country's state of technology influences absolute advantages, while heterogeneity...

... and China. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 China Egypt Exports Imports International trade Bilateral trade Comparative advantage Intra‐industry trade Trade complementarity Egypt was the first African country to enter into diplomatic relations with the People's Republic...

.... Belay Seyoum can be contacted at: Seyoum@nova.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Foreign trade International trade Free trade Foreign trade zones Trade agreement parity Legislation Importers can bring in products for display to wholesalers...

... sections is expected to provide such analysis based on the revealed comparative advantage. Ananda Jayawickrama can be contacted at: anandaj@pdn.ac.lk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Comparative tests Competitive strategy International trade Singapore India China...

... to particular destinations. It also argues that the evidence of rapid product turnover in trade is not inconsistent with traditional factor endowment trade pattern predictions, as has been inferred in the literature. Finally it finds that sunk costs in international trade appear to be external to particular...

... (extensive and intensive) for groups of countries. Farhang Niroomand can be contacted at: Farhang.Niroomand@usm.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Exports International trade Wacziarg (2002) , in reviewing the book written by Easterly (2001) , enumerates proposed factors...

..., the debate has been reduced to the issue of policy sequencing, as is described below. Abdol S. Soofi can be contacted at: soofi@uwplatt.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Exchange rates International trade Government policy China United States of America A great deal...

... International trade Financial risk We initially performed the augmented Dickey‐Fuller (ADF) unit root test to examine the time series properties of the data without allowing for any structural breaks. The ADF test is conducted using this equation: Equation 1 where: y_t...

... Group Publishing Limited 2008 Transfer pricing Brands Brand management International business International trade Considering the number of new product introductions and available product varieties, the practice of brand proliferation is visibly evident in many diverse industries...

...‐Saharan Africa that are eligible for AGOA benefits. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Sub Saharan Africa United States of America Imports Exports International trade The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law on 18 May, 2000. It is intended to offer...

... option to export; since this risk increases the potential gains from trade, the volume of trade will increase accordingly. Still other papers conclude that volatility has no discernible impact on the volume of international trade. Willett (1986) , noting that the empirical evidence up to that time...