This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...

Ziel dieses Artikels ist die Analyse der Leistungsfähigkeit des Gravitätsmodells, im Zusammenhang mit bereits bekannten Handelsströmen (Fall (a)), und als Prognosemodell (Fall (b)). Im Fall (a) dient das Modell der Erläuterung der Entwicklung von Handelsströmen. Der Test mit mehreren...

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have been proliferating for the last twenty years. A large literature has studied various aspects of this phenomenon. Until recently, however, many large-N studies have paid only scant attention to variation across PTAs in terms of content and design. Our...