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Silk Roads to Riches : Persistence Along an Ancient Trade Network
Ahmad, Zofia; Chicoine, Luke - 2021
The Silk Roads were a decentralized network of trade routes that connected ancient cities across Eurasia. Goods, ideas, people, and technology moved along the roads for over 1,500 years. Using a detailed georeferenced map of the entire trade network, this paper finds that areas within 50 KM of...
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Evaluating Investments in Economic Corridor Development : Lessons from the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Study
Brunner, Hans-Peter - 2014
This paper examines experience of economic corridor development in the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) region of South Asia. It lays out an applied framework for prioritizing trade-related interventions and investments according to the expected strength of their combined...
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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra-regional integration under the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) initiative and through participating in the East Asian production networks. In the 1970-80ś, South...
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The catching up processes of the regions of the Visegrad Group countries
Lengyel, Imre; Kotosz, Balázs - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 21 (2018) 4, pp. 5-24
The majority of Central and Eastern European post-socialist countries acceded to the European Union in 2004. The integration of these economies to the Union had begun earlier, which was strengthened by grants from the Structural Funds after the accession. One of their aims is to facilitate the...
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The People's Republic of China connecting Europe?
Gruebler, Julia - 2020
The significance of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for Europe is increasing …
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Comparative advantages of free trade port construction in shanghai under the belt and road initiative
Hu, Hao; Wang, Shufang; He, Jin-liao - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-16
As China's opening-up grows wider under the Belt and Road Initiative, the exploration and construction of free trade … ports have received increasing attention. In 2018, China's first free trade port was settled in Hainan instead of Shanghai …. In 2019, after the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was approved by the central government, six …
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Impacts of Cross-Country Infrastructure on Bilateral Trade : Evidence from New Silk Road Railways
Kuo, Ying-Min; Azam, Mehtabul - 2020
New Silk Road railways have provided cross-continental rail freight services between China and Eurasian countries since … China. To address the issue of endogenous placement of railways, we utilize the generalized synthetic control method. We … countries based on whether they share boundary with China …
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … ; employment ; China ; Eastern Europe ; Germany …
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2013
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. This is almost exclusively driven by the rise of Eastern Europe, not by China. We also conduct an analysis …
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(De)Stabilizing exchange rate strategies in East Asian monetary and economic integration
Schnabl, Gunther; Spantig, Kristina - 2014
The East Asian monetary integration process is at the crossroads. Given very benign liquidity conditions in the US, the prevailing common US dollar peg has contributed to growing macroeconomic and financial instability in the region. This has sparked demands to embark on an independent monetary...
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