type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>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...</p>

This paper utilizes Feder's production function in revisiting the relationship between exports and economic growth by testing the hypothesis of the export-led growth in relation to the Arab Republic of Egypt. It also aims to show the difference in the marginal productivities between the export...

This study provides the first empirical evidence on the effects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection on bilateral intra-industry trade (IIT) flows. The empirical investigation is based on pooled South African data and takes advantage of the theoretical distinction between horizontal...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the country-specific determinants of horizontal and vertical intra-industry trade (IIT) in South Africa using the gravity model of trade in a panel data setting. It empirically tests new and existing country-specific hypotheses of intra-industry...