This paper intends to establish conceptual foundations of analyzing the economic dimensions of regional or global emerging and endemic infectious disease events such as the case of 2019-nCoV. The 2019-nCoV Global Economic Impact Simulator (the 2019-nCoV-GEI-Simulator) attempts to identify the...

This paper attempts to evaluate the impact of massive infectious and contagious diseases and its final impact on the economic performance anywhere and anytime. We are considering to evaluate the case of Wuhan, China. We are taking in consideration the case of COVID-19 to be evaluated under a...

This paper examines the potential effects of the Trump administration's revisionist trade policies on Sino-American economic relations and their international trade implications. The Foreign Trade War Smash Wave Effect (FTWSWE) Simulator attempts to assess the impact of preferential trade...

This paper assesses China's role in Asia as an independent engine of growth, as a conduit of demand from the industrial countries, and as a competitor for export markets. We provide both macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence. The macroeconomic analysis focuses on the impact of U.S. and...

This paper evaluates the prospect of a possible unification between People's Republic of China and Taiwan from a multidimensional perspective encompassing the political, social, economic and technological dimensions. The idea is to evaluate the possibility of a partial or total reunification...

This paper introduces an alternative indicator to evaluate the external sector behavior of a country or region. The objective of this indicator, titled “The External Sector Vulnerability Monitoring Index” (henceforth ESVM) (λ), is to offer policy-makers and researchers a new analytical tool...