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New Study Shines a Light on Beijing’s Secretive International Lending Program

An unprecedented cache of documents shows that Chinese loan contracts have unusual secrecy provisions, collateral requirements, and debt renegotiation restrictions.

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In their spring report, the leading economic research institutes forecast an increase in gross domestic product of 3.7 percent...

The economic impact of punitive US tariffs is increasingly felt in Germany. Tariffs im-posed in 2019 due to Airbus subsidies...

The USA is by far the most important trading partner of the EU and also of Germany. It is likely to maintain its dominant...

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We present and discuss a novel dataset on informal collaboration in financial economics, manually collected from more than 5,000...

Gabriel Felbermayr, Alexander Tarasov

The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that reflects a desire to...

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We review a number of developments and trends in the literature on economic sanctions. We discuss salient contributions to the...

Jann Lay, Kerstin Nolte, Kacana Khadjavi

The accelerated growth of large-scale farming operations in developing countries, in particular Africa, has raised concerns that...

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