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 …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

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 …