This paper examines asymmetries in the J-curve effects of real exchange rate on Kenya’s trade balance by using panel data for bilateral trade with 30 trading partners. The data covers the period from 2006q1 to 2018q4 and the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimation technique, under both the linear...

Introduction -- Nixon and Kissinger -- China reforms from 1978 to 1990 -- China from 1990 forward -- China's currency manipulation -- US foreign direct investment (FDI) -- European foreign direct investment -- China foreign direct investment in the United States -- China foreign direct...

Some believe in the "Thucydides Trap": the idea that, since a rising power will challenge the dominance of an established one, a China-U.S. trade war will be inevitable. Being the largest and the second largest trading nations globally, the U.S. and China are in fact each other's most important...