Foreign aid from China is often characterized as ‘rogue aid' that is not guided by recipient need but by China …, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically test to which extent political and commercial interests shape China's aid … allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China's allocation of project aid, food aid, medical teams and total aid …

This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … results show that current political leaders' birth regions receive substantially larger financial flows from China than other …

We exploit Japan's 19th century move from autarky to free trade to provide the first test of the general validity of … a single refutable prediction on the economy's factor content of trade. Our test combines factor price data from Japan …'s late autarky period with Japan's factor content of trade calculated with the technologies of the country of origin of …

paper examines the impact of Japan's trade preferences on its multi-lateral tariff reductions. Using detailed product level … data, we find that Japan's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) acted as a stumbling block for the country's external …

This paper identifies a “border” effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan … contemporaneous structure of Japan's business and social networks, rather than cultural differences, induced by long …

This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP …

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …

Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades …, price levels (in PPP), and real exchange rates in relative terms. Due to data restrictions, China's relative exports (to the … US, Argentina, Japan, Korea, UK, Germany, and Spain) will be compared to Mexico's exports for a number of sectors over a …