Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding … customs data with information on pirate attacks to investigate how exporting firms respond to maritime piracy. It finds that … overall exports along a particular shipping route fall following an increase in pirate activity. In addition, piracy induces …

examine the impact of maritime piracy on Chinese export flows as well as firms' choice of transport mode. … LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …

We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings … and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is … associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export earnings depending on the model. When we proxy trade finance by the sum of …

A recent literature explores the nature and causes of the collapse in international trade during 2008 and 2009. The …; quantities fell by more than prices; and prices fell less for differentiated products. Do these stylised facts apply to trade … what extent the trade collapses of the Great Depression and Great Recession resembled each other. It also compares the free …

Two different data sources can be used to study Hong Kong's role in intermediating China's foreign trade. One is the … bilateral trade statistics between Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland reported by National Bureau of Statistics of China, and … the other is the bilateral trade statistics published by Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong. The corresponding …

enterprises use different trading strategies in the China region relative to other countries. US trade with the China region in …Aggregate trade data with breakdown into related and non‐related party components show that US multinational … 2002–2007 is characterized by arm's‐length transactions. State‐level trade data show great variability in state engagement …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … the China shock. The main lessons learned in this review are: (i) the aggregate gains from U.S.-China trade created …

Policymakers increasingly view China’s rapidly growing wealth as a threat. China currently ranks second, or perhaps … even first, in the world in gross domestic product (although 78th in per capita GDP), and the fear is that China will ….However, even if it continues to rise, China does not present much of a security threat to the United States. China does not harbor …

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an … transactions, we estimate a large positive impact of reduced travel times on trade as well as local manufacturing employment and …