This paper uses an augmented gravity trade model to examine the impact of Chinese exports to the United States on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) exports to the same market over the last two decades. The analysis relies on a sample of 33 LAC countries and trade data disaggregated to the...

During the last few decades, India’s trade with the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries has grown substantially, especially in the area of Information Technology (IT) services. The definition of IT services now includes a plethora of IT-enabled services (ITeS) directed to specific...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) concluded between Asian Pacific States in 2020 is expected to change regional and global trade patterns. Based on a Computable General Equilibrium model (including 41 countries and 39 sectors), the underlying paper evaluates the impact of...

The relationship between India and ASEAN has emerged as a crucial basis of their foreign policy. Both the regions signed a Free Trade Agreement in 2009, which came into effect in 2010. They are now reviewing the FTA to further enhance their economic cooperation. At this critical juncture, this...

In the past few years, the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a pivotal geostrategic arena against the backdrop of China's growing power and influence. As the United States and other Western countries have deepened their own strategic engagement in the region, IR scholars and regional experts...

No other bilateral relationship has comparable significance for the future of the international order as that between the United States and the People's Republic of China.Domestic political and social structural factors have a significant influence on the conflict behaviour of the two states....

After over seven years of showcasing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a significant part of its foreign policy toward Asia, the United States officially withdrew from the agreement in January. Japan—the one-time liberalization laggard who drew intense criticism for trade barriers in the...

Relations between China and the West appear to be caught in a downward spiral. In the West, there is a widespread perception that China has unduly benefited from economic globalization, while in China, there appears to be increasing concern that the West is seeking to contain China’s rise. In...

We collected 95 primary studies that deploy the gravity model and use a dummy for islands as a controlling variable. Our analysis rejects the presence of (publication) bias in the empirical literature. The primary studies reveal a statistically positive and economically meaningful meta effect....

The organizational model described in this paper is intended to increase the proportion of cooperatives in the economy.The motivation behind this paper is to help reduce wealth inequalities. Increasing the proportion of cooperatives in the economy would reduce global wealth inequalities because...

This study investigates how the trade war between the U.S. and China has influenced firm innovation. We examine the impact of the trade war on patent applications filed by US firms that previously depended on Chinese inventors. We find that US firms decreased the Chinese inventors who...

The rise of Chinese tech firms and the U.S.-China technology rivalry has certainly received much attention. Yet thus far, few academic works provide frameworks to systematically capture the influence of such a tech cold war. To fully understand the impact of China’s technological development...

This paper assesses India’s potential welfare gains from Regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) such as RCEP using a machine learning approach to examine the inherent structure of export and import pattern of India with member countries. These patterns reveal several interesting facts that...

Regulatory trading systems, such as the SO2 cap and trade system, are ubiquitous in environmental and natural resources law. In addition to cap and trade systems for pollutants such as SO2, NOx and CO2 , environmental and natural resources law uses trading in areas such as endangered species,...

The crisis in Ukraine could escalate into war if Russia and the US and its NATO allies cannot resolve their longstanding standoff over the reach of the transatlantic alliance. Mher D Sahakyan, 2020/21 AsiaGlobal Fellow and co-editor of the book China and Eurasia Rethinking Cooperation and...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is far more than an instrument of Chinese foreign economic and development policy, argues Mher D Sahakyan of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research in Yerevan, Armenia. The BRI, he writes, is the backbone of a new kind of Chinese...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia became a playground for the ‘modern great game’ between and among different powers, with Russia, China, the United States, the European Union, Turkey, Iran, and India playing major roles. In the current scenario, the Gulf Cooperation...

India and Canada have a major role to play in the changing world scenario. Both the economies are committed to democracy, pluralism, tolerance and, global peace & security. The Indo- Canada relationship can be traced in west minister institutions, common law and in close interpersonal. There is...

This essay reviews recent developments related to economic integration after Covid-19, including European Union's trade agreements in Australasia amidst new global geopolitical risks, and European integration and foreign direct investment after Covid-19. The essay concludes that in a...

This study explores how to promote bilateral industrial cooperation between Korea and Ethiopia centered on bilateral trade and investment. This research focuses particularly on industrial cooperation between the Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of the two countries. This research was initiated...

Political, social, technological, cultural conditions and factors originating from various spheres of human activity impact international economic relations (IER), and this gives each stage of their development a pronounced originality. Digitalization as one of the most important tracks of the...

The emergence of manufacturing related services (MRS) coincides with the revaluation of manufacturing. We observed that manufacturing-focused countries overcame the financial crisis which broke out in 2007 with less difficulty than their service-focused counterparts. Manufacturing played a...

We use causal forests to evaluate the heterogeneous effects of the US-China trade war on China’s exports to the US. While the exports have decreased by 70% on average after the tariff, causal forests at the HS10 digit reveals that the effects range from -800% to +180%. The products that can be...

The U.S. is pursuing a geo-economic strategy largely aimed at constraining China as a global rival. This includes weaponization of the dollar in the global financial system, and weaponization of supply chains such as semiconductors. This could backfire, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, which is...

This paper documents a substantial change in regional trade patterns precipitated by the war on Ukraine and the subsequent introduction of trade sanctions on Russia. It provides evidence suggestive of intermediated trade via neighbouring economies being used to circumvent the sanctions. The...

Globalization and for that reason, trade liberalization have been a major discourse on the table of many international forums; as global alliances seek to solve environmental and economic issues with a common front. International trade is accepted as the steering wheel for which growth and...

The present study explores the conundrum of sovereignty and integration in the aftermath of the Brexit vote and its implications for international trade relations. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the study begins by situating the concept of sovereignty within its historical and...

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic relationships with suppliers and customers....

Despite the best efforts of the West, the economic sanctions have failed to be as effective as expected, an unsurprising result if we take into account the fact that not all countries (for example, China, India, Israel, Turkey) have joined these sanctions, and those countries (this primarily...

This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations.Comparing perspectives and methodologies, it promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on China’s pivot towards Eurasia, the Belt and Road initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation...

This paper explores the prominent and enduring brokerage role of Hong Kong in facilitating mainland Chinese companies’ US listings. We argue the brokerage role needs to be interpreted in both global and territorial dimensions. Situating Hong Kong in the global context, it utilises its...

The term internationalization has been mainly used to show the expansion of economic activities of firms outside of their home country where they aim at capturing a bigger market. The Central and Eastern Europe region has gone through a process of market transition over the past few decades, yet...