This paper empirically accounts for the importance of the 'global supply chains' concept for export restructuring and productivity growth in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) in the period 1995-2007. Using industry-level data and accounting for technology intensity, we show that FDI...

This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and indirectly related to...

We investigate whether cross-country trade linkages allows for fundamental information diffusion. We find that lagged returns of customer countries predict the future returns of the supplier countries, up to 3 years ahead

"This book examines the economic and social impacts of switching diplomatic relations from Taiwan to China, and vice versa and investigates how China achieves its foreign policy objective of dissuading Taiwan's diplomatic partners and other third parties from engaging with Taiwan. Highlighting...