This study seeks to test the validity of the Marshall-Lerner (M-L) condition between Egypt and BRICS countries (five countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) to determine which industries will benefit from depreciation in the long run by employing the import and export models...

This paper scrutinizes the well-known Marshall-Lerner (M-L) condition for a group of OECD countries (non-Asian) and Asian countries from 2000 to 2017. We apply a pooled mean group (PMG) estimator to overcome the shortcomings of the other methods, such as the most famous in the recent...

We measure the role of firm heterogeneity in counterfactual predictions of monopolistic competition trade models without parametric restrictions on the distribution of firm fundamentals. We show that two bilateral elasticity functions are sufficient to nonparametrically compute the...

The New Open Economy Macroeconomics has allowed economists to tackle classical problems with new tools, while also generating new ideas and questions. In their attempts to make the new models capture empirical regularities, researchers have entertained a variety of assumptions about the...

The current crisis dominates everything from commerce to day-to-day life. But it will pass over within a relatively short space of time and the recession seems likely to reverse the long-standing pattern. Given the gravity of the circumstance, nations have been constrained to undertake unusual...