This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the port of Shanghai, an analysis of the impact of the port on its territory and an assessment of policies in this field. It examines port performance over the last decades and identifies the principal factors that have contributed to...

We observe that the period between Cold War era and the event of 911, variation in foreign military threats leads to variation in defense resources and fluctuations in the labor market. Using an intertemporal optimization dynamic model, this paper explores the impacts of foreign military threats...

Exchange rate movements affect exports through depreciation (appreciation) and risk. Depreciation may raise exports but exchange rate risk could offset the positive effect. This paper investigates the net effect for eight Asian countries using a dynamic conditional correlation bivariate GARCH-M...