This paper investigates the effects of trade asymmetry on political conflicts and the possible heterogeneity. The study used instrumental variable regression method based on 142 countries' data from 1979 to 2012. The estimation results show that a 1% rise in trade asymmetry leads to a 2.67%...

Little is known about the firm-level dynamics behind trade responses to political tensions. This article reinvestigates variation in the travel pattern of the 14th Dalai Lama to study how political tensions affect trading decisions of Chinese importers. Using monthly trade data from China...

Both trade theories and empirical evidence have provided strong support for the gravity model. However, its applications in air transport research remain relatively sparse. A review of the air transport literature employing gravity models in the last ten years shows that most of the studies have...

This paper uses a unique micro dataset of Chinese private firms surveyed in 2000 to investigate whether having a more highly educated entrepreneur affects a firm's performance. Identifying educational effects has been shown to be empirically challenging because it is difficult to overcome the...