This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First …), which also includes the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009, in order to compare the trade impact of two different … indicates that both the GCF and the Covid-19 pandemic had negative effects on trade but of a different magnitude. The use of …

products exported under processing trade, and for capital goods. We also find that deaths and lockdowns in previous months tend … to increase current imports from China, partially offsetting the contemporaneous trade loss, suggesting that trade is not …

This paper examines how the Covid-19 pandemic affected European trade patterns. Specifically, dynamic panel data models … of resilience. In particular, trade flows of durable products were more significantly affected by the pandemic compared …

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 …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar …

What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at … work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical … from 1920 to 1939 related to the formation of trade blocs (in particular, the British Commonwealth) and short …

overcapacities have weakened China's bargaining position in the US-Chinese trade conflict and have tempted the Chinese authorities to …

Since the 1970s, exports and imports of manufactured goods have been the engine of international trade and much of that … trade relies on container shipping. This paper introduces a new monthly index of the volume of container trade to and from …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal …, featuring multiple sectors, input-output linkages, services trade, and non-tariff barriers (NTBs). It uses the results of an …