In early 2020, the disease Covid-19 caused a drastic lockdown of the Chinese economy. We use a quantitative trade model … international trade and global value chains (GVCs). We find moderate welfare losses in most countries outside of China, while a few … countries even gain from the shock due to trade diversion. As a key methodological contribution, we quantify the role of GVCs …

investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In … results confirm that global value chain-related trade is associated with a higher productivity premium compared with … traditional trade. However, within the categories of exporters, only the firms that trade in global value chain-related products …

parliamentary elections. On the economic side, the sanctions significantly hurt Russia's foreign trade - with regional …-level variation. We use trade losses caused by the sanctions as measure for regional sanction exposure. For identification, we rely on … a structural gravity model that allows us to compare observed trade flows to counterfactual flows in the absence of …

firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …

. In choosing between these alternatives, they face a trade-off between higher variable distance costs when exporting and …

trade for a panel of 37 developed and emerging economies during the period 1995-2011. We find significant and non …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … trade after accounting for potential reverse causality. …

exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …

. We first gauge the impact of the sanctions' regime using a structural gravity framework and quantify the trade losses in … by the Russian embargo. Instead, the disruption of the provision of trade finance services is found to have played an …