Despite a general agreement that piracy poses a significant threat to maritime shipping, empirical evidence regarding … customs data with information on pirate attacks to investigate how exporting firms respond to maritime piracy. It finds that … overall exports along a particular shipping route fall following an increase in pirate activity. In addition, piracy induces …

examine the impact of maritime piracy on Chinese export flows as well as firms' choice of transport mode. … LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …

We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings … and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is … associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export earnings depending on the model. When we proxy trade finance by the sum of …

quantify the distributional effects of the United States-People's Republic of China trade dispute across different regions in … between the United States and the People's Republic of China. This study sheds light on the interplay between transport … participation in international trade and support economic development. Focusing on Viet Nam as a case study, this research aims to …

A recent literature explores the nature and causes of the collapse in international trade during 2008 and 2009. The …; quantities fell by more than prices; and prices fell less for differentiated products. Do these stylised facts apply to trade … what extent the trade collapses of the Great Depression and Great Recession resembled each other. It also compares the free …

We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade … retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the United States. Using a new quarterly dataset on bilateral trade for 99 … possible mechanism whereby the U.S. was targeted despite countries’ MFN obligations. The retaliators’ welfare gains from trade …

We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade … retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the United States. Using a new quarterly dataset on bilateral trade for 99 … possible mechanism whereby the U.S. was targeted despite countries’ MFN obligations. The retaliators’ welfare gains from trade …

Policymakers increasingly view China’s rapidly growing wealth as a threat. China currently ranks second, or perhaps … even first, in the world in gross domestic product (although 78th in per capita GDP), and the fear is that China will ….However, even if it continues to rise, China does not present much of a security threat to the United States. China does not harbor …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … the China shock. The main lessons learned in this review are: (i) the aggregate gains from U.S.-China trade created …