Tong, Jiadong; Yu, Ziliang; Xu, Jiayun; Tong, Meng - 2022
Using a newly built soft power index, we examine whether and how soft power affects Chinese firm-level export to the Belt and Road (B&R) countries from 2000 to 2016. We find that soft power has significantly positive effects on both export value and export product types for the B&R countries....