Trade barriers have become an increasingly popular policy design for protecting and nurturing domestic clean-tech manufacturing industries in major economies, including the US, EU, Canada, and India. Confronted with a surge of Chinese solar photovoltaics (PV) imports at drastically reduced...

Contestation dynamics have intensified in recent years, to the point they are now driving global politics. This shift is not only due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resurgence of violent territorial conflicts worldwide, but also to the escalating rivalry between the United States and...

Rising trade tensions, a spate of trade-inhibiting policy measures and a weakening of multilateral institutions have sparked a growing concern about the potential implications of global trade fragmentation. Yet, empirical evidence that geopolitical considerations are already materially affecting...

This paper examines the complexities of global value chains, which involve multiple enterprises and geographic locations in the production and distribution of goods and services. The paper highlights the need for comprehensive statistics, in particular in the domain of business statistics, to...