Pei, Jiansuo; Vries, Gaaitzen J. de; Zhang, Meng - 2022
This paper examines the impact of COVID‐19 lockdowns on exports by Chinese cities. We use city‐level export data at a monthly frequency from January 2018 through April 2020. Differences‐in‐differences estimates suggest cities in lockdown experienced a ceteris paribus 34 percentage points...