-related finance declined sharply. However, trade may also be affected by other variables such as world demand, domestic demand …

We investigate how corporate stock returns respond to geopolitical risk in the case of South Korea, which has … risk from North Korea (the GPRNK index) is constructed using automated keyword searches in South Korean media. The GPRNK … index, designed to capture both upside and downside risk, corroborates that geopolitical risk sharply increases with the …

improved since the mid-1980s; that private investment is mostly influenced by the risk of expropriation, the degree of civil … liberty, and the degree of independence of the bureaucracy; and that economic growth is affected by the risk of expropriation …

With China''s accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization''s most prominent nonmember. This paper … applies the gravity model to gauge whether this ""outsider"" status has been affecting Russia''s export structure. On the … the model''s predictions. The paper discusses possible explanations of this result, including Russia''s exclusion from …

We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in … Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over the last decade or so. The results … point to the continued existence of economic links between the CIS countries and Russia, though these links may have altered …

activity around the world. We present a parsimonious two-country-SIR model with some degree of substitutability between home …