This study analyses the static effects of the customs union between Turkey and the European Union (abbreviated as CUTEU) and its alternatives from the partial equlibrium view. The first section of this study outlines the main economic effects of a customs union as well as the main methods of...

This study aims at the dynamic effects of the customs union between Turkey and the European Union (abbreviated as CUTEU) from the partial equlibrium view. This aricle consists of three parts. The first part of the article analyses briefly the static and dynamic effects and their measurement...

This study empirically examines aggregate tourism demand function for Turkey using the time series data for the period 1960-2002. The total tourist arrivals into Turkey are related to world income, relative prices and transportation cost. We employ bounds testing cointegration procedure proposed...

This paper analyses the determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into Turkey from four major geographical regions and at aggregate level with a special emphasis on Turkey’s application to the European Union (EU) to become a full member in 1987. In contrast to previous...

This study brifly looks into the process of Turkey into the world economy and concludes that this process has been accelareted in the 1990s.

The book encapsulates the ways and means of doing business with China, and the opportunities out there. It reveals how China has transformed itself for the investors by creating a friendly environment; but,nevertheless, cultural and social aspects must not be forgotten while dealing with them....

Economists measure the cost of protection in terms of static efficiency, growth rates and firm- or industry-level productivity effects. This survey is devoted exclusively to the literature on the static efficiency. A key preliminary point to note is that estimates in this literature are not...

This paper uses firm level data to investigate the impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector employment in Morocco. This paper extends the existing research in various dimensions. First, it analyses the effect of trade openness on different skill levels of the manufacturing labor...

This paper assesses empirically structural change in the Indian manufacturing based export sector, based on an analysis of 143 industries / product groupings (mainly manufacturing industries). Trade indices such as Balassa’s revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index, and other variants...

Traditionally, food security is defined in terms of either food self-sufficiency or food self-reliance. The former requires production of various food items in the quantities consumed domestically while the latter requires domestic availability. Based on this distinction, self-sufficiency rules...