China during 2020. We find that a country’s own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …

For a long time, China's impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based … on the recent discussion on possible overcapacities and overinvestment in China, the paper investigates the … sustainability of China's investment- and export-driven growth model. It is shown that since the turn of the millennium buoyant …

This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and … Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …

of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 …