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 …

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 …

and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information …This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times … valorem trade costs at the country‐sector level. The findings show that the Belt and Road Initiative will significantly reduce …

This paper estimates the causal effect of international direct flights on cities’ international trade, using Chinese … customs transaction-level trade data and flight route data from 2000 to 2015 and the staggered differences …

transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics …-run economic growth. However, it spurs employment and road freight by stimulating intermodal transport. …

Since the turn of the millennium, China opened up internationally both in terms of its current account (trade) and its … capital account, even though the opening of the latter happened de facto, not de jure. With respect to China being Africa … that capital flows from China to Africa in the form of mainly economic cooperation projects, but also FDI contribute to an …

We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern … supplier related competitiveness effect. Both the CESEE region and China successfully intensified their trade linkages above … trade links, applying highly disaggregated data at the 6 digit HS level over the period 1995 - 2010. We show that the most …