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The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise …
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We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...
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China's digital economy has expanded rapidly in recent years. While average digitalization of the economy remains lower …
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The paper models international spillovers from a hypothetical drop of China's imports as a result of China … shock, which are largely unaccounted for in the existing literature. Such effects include direct spillovers from China on … its trading partners, subsequent spillins among them, and spillbacks on China itself. The paper finds that the network …
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We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks have become the largest cross-border creditors for almost half of all emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Their global reach resembles that of banks from advanced...
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We analyze the impact on productivity in advanced economies of fast-growing trade with China between the mid-1990s and … economies and, similar to Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013), exploit exogenous variation in trade with China in a given country …-sector by instrumenting imports from (exports to) China in a given country-sector with the average imports from (exports to …
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China''s rapid overall growth since 1978 masks significant differences in relative economic performance across its …
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: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the …
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How can governments reduce the prevalence of cross-border tax fraud? This paper argues that the use of digital technologies offers an opportunity to reduce fraud and increase government revenue. Using data on intra-EU and world trade transactions, we present evidence that (i) cross-border trade...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift toward digital services. Meanwhile, the race for technological and economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from the worst global recession since the Great Depression....
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