Grauwe, Paul De; Houssa, Romain; Piccillo, Giulia - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 10 (2012) 1, pp. 15-45
This paper employs the standard gravity model to identify the quality of governance of China's African trade partners. As a benchmark, we perform the same analysis on other major African trade partners: France, Germany, UK, and USA. Data from 53 African countries in 1996--2009 show that only...