Noneconomic considerations for bilateral or regional trade agreements can be notoriously difficult to measure. In the case of US-Taiwan relations, one common factor defines the two countries’ security alliance: China. In this policy brief, we discuss a new metric we recently developed that...

Starving a nation of resources has a long history in foreign policy, from ancient sieges of cities to modern economic sanctions. Sanctions can take the form of a unilateral or multilateral trade embargo, or targeted trade and financial sanctions by a coordinated group of countries that cut off...

A geopolitical incident in the Taiwan Strait would pose two immediate risks to the US economy: (a) potential disruptions to digital flows from vulnerable submarine cables with landing stations in Taiwan and (b) the delay or disruption of container shipments in the Taiwan Strait and nearby waters...

This brief aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the use of sanctions as a coercive tool of international policymaking, focusing on the economic effects of the sanctions on the Russian Federation ('Russia') following its invasion of Ukraine. Using computable general equilibrium...

This paper presents a legal-economic analysis of the World Trade Organization’s Article 22.6 arbitration report on the dispute over certain United States’ antidumping methodologies. The Arbitrator sought to quantify the damages suffered by China from US non-compliance with an earlier ruling....

The coronavirus pandemic has restricted people's physical movement but not the exchange of information, knowledge, and other digitally delivered services. The post-coronavirus future will likely continue to include an ever-expanding range of associated business, professional, and technical...

This study considers the potential role for blockchain technologies in international trade, specifically how such technologies might affect trade finance, customs procedures, and provenance (origin) of goods. For trade finance, blockchain could reduce the expense and time required to facilitate...