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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and Internationalization
Wang, Hao - 2020
In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro - 2020
of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837986
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …
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Arming in the Global Economy : The Importance of Trade with Enemies and Friends
Garfinkel, Michelle R. - 2019
We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one’s incentive to arm given the opponent’s...
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The Farsighted Stability of Global Tade Policy Arrangements
Berens, Stefan; Chochua, Lasha; Willmann, Gerald - 2021
We study the stability of trade policy arrangements under two regulatory scenarios, with/without PTAs. Unlike previous papers, we consider an extensive set of trade policy constellations and allow for unlimited farsightedness of negotiating parties. We find global free trade (GFT) to be uniquely...
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Trading with the Informed and Against the Uninformed : Flows and Positioning in the Global Currency Market
Barrios, Aldo; Franolic, Robert; Giovanardi, Davide; … - 2022
FX trade settlement data from CLS provides the most comprehensive view of the opaque market of OTC currency trades. We use the flows of investment funds and non-financial corporates and develop trading signals where the former reflects speculative strategies, while the latter trade for liquidity...
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The Global Effects of COVID-19-Induced Uncertainty
Caggiano, Giovanni - 2020
We estimate a three-variate VAR using proxies of global financial uncertainty, the global financial cycle, and world … outbreak. We predict the cumulative loss in world output one year after the uncertainty shock due to Covid-19 to be about 14% …
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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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The KOF Globalisation Index - Revisited
Gygli, Savina - 2019
We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006 … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892154
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The Better Route to Global Tax Coordination : Gradualism or Multilateralism?
Konrad, Kai A. - 2019
In the context of international tax coordination incomplete information is one of the well-known frictions that can lead to bargaining failure and might explain a lack of observed coordination. We consider international negotiations about tax coordination under complete and incomplete...
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