panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries’ trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … countries. Trade of targets of US sanctions with China declines even more than trade with the US. These general patterns are …

FTAs. Hence, greater democratic instability induces governments to boost their FTA commitments. In a dataset with 116 …

service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from …

As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade … imports of both India and China due to different preferential trading arrangements and free trade arrangements using the … gravity model. Empirical results show that in the short run India's potential gain is relatively less compared to China …

firms. It focuses on the country whose exports are most exposed to such measures, China. Product-level analysis shows that …

in which heterogeneous firms decide whether to lobby and how much to spend in favor or against a proposed FTA. We show … that the distributional effects are asymmetric: the winners from the FTA have higher stakes in the agreement than the … losers, which explains why only pro-FTA firms select into lobbying. The model also delivers predictions on the intensive …