The sudden and abrupt rise of COVID-19 became a challenge for the world economy. In this paper, we investigate the changes in a trend of mutual trade between the EU-15 countries and China during the demanding times of the COVID-19 crisis. We use monthly data for Chinese exports to the E.U....

Ein Gutachten des IfW Kiel im Auftrag der IMPULS-Stiftung des VDMA zeigt: Deutschlands Wohlstand wird entscheidend von der internationalen Arbeitsteilung getragen. Erschwert Deutschland in Reaktion auf die Coronakrise die Kooperation mit ausländischen Lieferanten, etwa um Lieferketten durch das...

To control the health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments implemented various restrictive policies, such as stay-at-home orders and restrictions on internal movement, which had adverse effects on consumption and, consequently, on international trade. This was observed even for products...

COVID-19 has raised questions about the resilience of agri-food trade to global shocks to the system. This paper analyses the changes in agri-food trade (values, extensive and intensive margin, and diversification) during the pandemic at global and regional levels. It also considers parallels in...