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Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
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Does WTO Membership Make a Difference at the Extensive Margin of World Trade? [PDF]
In his seminal paper, Rose (2004) concluded from a gravity-type study of bilateral trade that the GATT/WTO does not play a strong role in encouraging trade.
Gabriel J. Felbermayr, Wilhelm Kohler
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Promise‐Keeping Reputations in an Investment Game: An Experimental Investigation
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We design a controlled laboratory experiment to mitigate moral hazard problems in livestream shopping when sellers make promises to buyers. In our experiment, the promise‐keeping reputation mechanism allows sellers to send promises to buyers while buyers can observe the sellers' historical promise‐keeping records. Results demonstrate that bare
Ninghua Du, Qun Zhao
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik +8 more
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Migrant networks: Empirical Implications for the Italian Bilateral Trade [PDF]
A significant number of empirical studies, focusing on different countries, have found a positive link between migration and trade. This paper studies the relationship between emigration, immigration and trade using Italian data.
Barbara Pistoresi, Marina Murat
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International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To explore the real effect of banking globalisation on bank liquidity creation, we investigate plausibly exogenous variations in the expectation of further banking globalisation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which further opens the gate to foreign investors.
Xuanyi Shi +3 more
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Cross-Sectoral Gravity for Bilateral Trade: Greek–Chinese Trade Prospects [PDF]
Montenegrin Journal of Economics, 2022 Dimitrios Karkanis
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The impact of North-South and South-South trade agreements on bilateral trade. [PDF]
Free trade agreements (FTAs) lead to a rise in bilateral trade even if the signatories include developing countries. Furthermore, the percentage increase in bilateral trade is higher for South-South agreements than for North-South agreements. the results
Alberto Behar, Laia Cirera i Crivillé
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Impacts of U.S. tariffs on electric vehicle imports from China
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, EarlyView.Abstract In May 2024, the United States announced a steep increase in tariffs on electric vehicles (EVs) imported from China. This paper evaluates the short‐run impacts of that policy on trade flows and investor expectations. We find that imports of Chinese EVs declined sharply following the announcement.
Nelton Raul +2 more
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Bilateralism, multilateralism, and the quest for global free trade [PDF]
We develop an equilibrium theory of trade agreements in which both the degree and the nature (bilateral or multilateral) of trade liberalization are endogenously determined.
Saggi, Kamal, Yildiz, Halis Murat
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