The development of a new global health architecture in the wake of Covid-19 will require important decisions to be made, especially when it comes to negotiating a pandemic accord and creating robust supply chains. Against the backdrop of their systemic rivalry, the US and China view global...

Do national strategic interests influence how countries respond to a global health crisis? We answer this question in the context of China’s FDI flows into host countries under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and China’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Employing a newly available dataset...

Using the geopolitical threats (GPT) index of Caldara and Iacoviello (2022), we show, in this paper, that the U.S. equity market and a few individual sectors produce significantly positive returns during high geopolitical threats, even with the presence of standard controls, while other major...

In this paper, we demonstrate that the U.S. equity market and a few specific sectors produce significantly positive returns during high geopolitical threats, even with the presence of standard controls, whereas other major markets around the world fail to exhibit such results. We use the...