Mahfuz Kabir, Ruhul Salim, Nasser Al-Mawali
Ruhul Salim, Mohammad Mahfuz Kabir, Nasser Al Mawali
This paper examines whether the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC) exerted any trade enhancing impact on its members by employing standard augmented gravity model as well as stochastic frontier gravity model. Panel data sets are constructed over the period of 1980 to 2008 for imports and expor...
Ruhul Salim, Nasser Al Mawali, Amirul Islam
Abstract This article provides the first empirical evidence on the effects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and threat of imitation on Australia's export flows. Using data from all of Australia's trading partners over the period 1995–2010, an augmented gravity model is estimated in the context...