This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

Chinese case is analyzed as an introductory example. FDI has increased regional inequalities in China after the economic …

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it … computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade …

This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm … larger ones, suggesting important within-industry reallocation effects. Moreover, we find evidence for trade deflection as AD …

In last few decades, Asian production networks have contributed significantly toward the rapid trade expansion and … to the People Republic of China (PRC) and ASEAN for assembly by lower-skilled workers. The finished products are then … region through increased connectivity and reducing trade costs. …

We quantify the economic impact of a potential secession of Catalonia from Spain. Using a novel dataset of trade flows … between 17 Spanish sub-national regions and 142 countries, we estimate effects of different levels of borders on trade flows … associated political uncertainty. In counterfactual experiments, we impose new borders on Catalan trade, potentially within or …

in sentiment. Third, the trade-induced U.S. sentiment toward China is broad-based, encompassing political, military, and …We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before …