Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding … customs data with information on pirate attacks to investigate how exporting firms respond to maritime piracy. It finds that … overall exports along a particular shipping route fall following an increase in pirate activity. In addition, piracy induces …

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 …

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 …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … to shipment, destination and firm characteristics. We find container transport to have a higher first-mile cost and a …

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 …

exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …

trade for a panel of 37 developed and emerging economies during the period 1995-2011. We find significant and non …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … trade after accounting for potential reverse causality. …

States-China trade war and the cascading response of the countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the …In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United … broad swathe of tradeables that made a global trade environment highly unpredictable, the latter has seen entire production …