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Do China and Russia undermine US sanctions? : evidence from DiD and event study estimation
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455721
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The implications of the new Silk Road railways on local development
Fang, Ling; Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2019
This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118650
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An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2011
of policy (geopolitics), and study how the saliency of this dimension may play in favor of the incumbent group. My …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130179
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The role of global uncertainty in shaping trade flow relations : a cross-country analysis for Europe
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Menescal, Lucas; … - 2024
We examine the effects of World Uncertainty and Geopolitical Risk on Trade flows for 31 European economies between 1995 and 2023. To do so, we resort to Panel estimation techniques, including OLS and Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML). Our findings reveal that European nations primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077831
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Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Tarasov, Alexander - 2015 - This version: November 2015
The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that reflects a desire to unlock the welfare gains from regional economic integration. Yet, despite being one of the oldest government activities, the economic forces shaping the endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392697
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Estimating the effects of the container revolution on world trade
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; El-Sahli, Zouheir; Kneller, Richard - 2013
The introduction of containerization triggered complementary technological and organizational changes that revolutionized global freight transport. Despite numerous claims about the importance of containerization in stimulating international trade, econometric estimates on the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712458
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Rogue aid? : The determinants of China's aid allocation
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302132
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
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Leading the unwilling : unilateral strategies to prevent arctic oil exploration
Leroux, Justin; Spiro, Daniel - 2017
Arctic oil extraction is inconsistent with the 2°C target. We study unilateral strategies by climate-concerned Arctic countries to deter extraction by others. Contradicting common theoretical assumptions about climate-change mitigation, our setting is one where countries may fundamentally...
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Pigou pushes preferences : decarbonisation and endogenous values
Mattauch, Linus; Hepburn, Cameron; Stern, Nicholas H. - 2018
Avoiding unmanageable climate change implies that global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced rapidly. A significant body of literature shows that policy instruments such as carbon prices can make an important contribution to this goal. In contrast, changes in preferences or values are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942822