The Impact of Domestic Resource Cost on the Comparative Advantages of Iran Crude Steel Sector

Abdul Ghafar Ismail (), Behrooz Gharleghi, Yaghoob Jafari, Ehsan Hosseinidoust and Najla Shafighi

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Abstract: Steel is fundamental material for many industries that could produced by blast furnace (BF) and direct reduced Iron technology (DRI) .these two technologies differ from each other in term of difference of production cost, energy consumption, investment and environment issues. The purpose of this paper is to investigate comparative advantages of these two technologies by using domestic resource cost (DRC) method. It provides a comparison between the domestic costs to produce a specific good with its value added at international prices, which was done by Mckay (1999), DHEHIBI (2009), Ruiz (2003) and Bonjec (2002). The result suggests that that although both two technologies have its own comparative advantages, the blast furnace method (BF) would be more preferable than direct reduced Iron technology (DRI).

Keywords: Blast Furnace Technology; Direct Reduced Iron Technology; Crude Steel; Domestic Resource Cost; Shadow prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D20 F12 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-12-28, Revised 2010-10-25
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