Rising terrorism risks are a major obstacle for Belt and Road countries to integrate into the global trade network. Based on the cross-country panel data of the now 66 Belt and Road countries during 2000-2013, this pa...Rising terrorism risks are a major obstacle for Belt and Road countries to integrate into the global trade network. Based on the cross-country panel data of the now 66 Belt and Road countries during 2000-2013, this paper carries out an empirical study on the trade isolation effect of terrorism risks with the following findings: Rising terrorism risks will indeed give rise to a significant "trade isolation effect" with greater negative impact on a country's export than on import. After taking into account the endogeneity of the variable of terrorism risks and heterogeneous casualties of terrorist attacks, this conclusion remains robust. In addition, the trade isolation effect of terrorism risks is also characterized by heterogeneous targets under attack, i.e. the degree of trade isolation effect is positively correlated with the randomness of targets under terrorist attacks.展开更多
China is the leading importer of soybeans in the world. If China adopts high yield biotech soybean varieties, China's soybean production would increase significantly and this would impact global soybean markets. This...China is the leading importer of soybeans in the world. If China adopts high yield biotech soybean varieties, China's soybean production would increase significantly and this would impact global soybean markets. This paper assesses the possible effects of adoption of herbicide-tolerant, biotech soybeans in China and its impact on the world soybean trade. Results indicate that under a low technology fee and high adoption rate, China would be able to satisfy its soybean food demand. Urban consumers' strong preference for non-biotech soybean oil may lead to increase in imports of non-biotech soybeans.展开更多
通过尝试以网络平台的远程操作与实体实验室环境的现场操作相结合的教学模式,国际贸易模拟(Teach me trade)课程以教学模式的创新提升教学效果,并改进教学效果评价体系以加强其客观性全面性。虚拟仿真课程只有将先进的教学理念实践于教...通过尝试以网络平台的远程操作与实体实验室环境的现场操作相结合的教学模式,国际贸易模拟(Teach me trade)课程以教学模式的创新提升教学效果,并改进教学效果评价体系以加强其客观性全面性。虚拟仿真课程只有将先进的教学理念实践于教学模式的创新,才能逐步提高对教学模式及教学效果评价体系的理论认识,并进行科学合理的优化。展开更多
Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Minis...Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 10YJC7902930), is gratefully acknowledged. Authors highly appreciate the comments of anonymous reviewers and take sole responsibility for this paper.展开更多
Using input-output tables of China and the U.S., this paper has calculated the pollution embodied in trade and structure of pollution, the balance of emissions embodied in trade (BEET) and the pollution terms of tra...Using input-output tables of China and the U.S., this paper has calculated the pollution embodied in trade and structure of pollution, the balance of emissions embodied in trade (BEET) and the pollution terms of trade (PTT) for 18 manufacturing sectors of China and the US. between 2001 and 2010. The calculation aims to verify whether China has become a "pollution haven" in bilateral trade with developed countries represented by the U.S., and whether Chinese exports are "dirtier" compared with imports from the U.S., and further conducting an industry structure analysis and effect decomposition study on pollution embodied in trade in industrial goods between China and U.S.. Result of our research indicates that according to our calculation of the BEET, China remains a country with environmental deficits in bilateral trade with the U.S. while the gaps between pollution embodied in China's export and import are narrowing. Pollution embodied in China's export has the tendency of increase before decline while pollution embodied in import demonstrates no significant tendency of decline. Through effect decomposition, we further found that the effect of technology arising from the substantial decline of pollution intensity effectively lowered pollution embodied in export and narrowed the environmental deficits of China in its bilateral trade. The effect of scale arising from growing export volumes significantly increased China's environmental deficits while the structural effect arising from changes in the structure of import and export is insignificant in reducing environmental deficits. Our calculation of the PTT led to the finding that China's export goods are more pollution intensive compared with import goods and that the structure of US exports to China is cleaner than the structure of Chinese exports to the US., which requires further improvements of China's import and export structure.展开更多
文摘Rising terrorism risks are a major obstacle for Belt and Road countries to integrate into the global trade network. Based on the cross-country panel data of the now 66 Belt and Road countries during 2000-2013, this paper carries out an empirical study on the trade isolation effect of terrorism risks with the following findings: Rising terrorism risks will indeed give rise to a significant "trade isolation effect" with greater negative impact on a country's export than on import. After taking into account the endogeneity of the variable of terrorism risks and heterogeneous casualties of terrorist attacks, this conclusion remains robust. In addition, the trade isolation effect of terrorism risks is also characterized by heterogeneous targets under attack, i.e. the degree of trade isolation effect is positively correlated with the randomness of targets under terrorist attacks.
文摘China is the leading importer of soybeans in the world. If China adopts high yield biotech soybean varieties, China's soybean production would increase significantly and this would impact global soybean markets. This paper assesses the possible effects of adoption of herbicide-tolerant, biotech soybeans in China and its impact on the world soybean trade. Results indicate that under a low technology fee and high adoption rate, China would be able to satisfy its soybean food demand. Urban consumers' strong preference for non-biotech soybean oil may lead to increase in imports of non-biotech soybeans.
文摘通过尝试以网络平台的远程操作与实体实验室环境的现场操作相结合的教学模式,国际贸易模拟(Teach me trade)课程以教学模式的创新提升教学效果,并改进教学效果评价体系以加强其客观性全面性。虚拟仿真课程只有将先进的教学理念实践于教学模式的创新,才能逐步提高对教学模式及教学效果评价体系的理论认识,并进行科学合理的优化。
基金Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 10YJC7902930), is gratefully acknowledged. Authors highly appreciate the comments of anonymous reviewers and take sole responsibility for this paper.
文摘Financial support from National Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth (Grant No.70925006), National Natural Sciences Fund Program (Grant No.71103059), Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Program of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 10YJC7902930), is gratefully acknowledged. Authors highly appreciate the comments of anonymous reviewers and take sole responsibility for this paper.
基金supported by the Foundation of Tianjin Educational Committee(Grant No.20112401)
文摘Using input-output tables of China and the U.S., this paper has calculated the pollution embodied in trade and structure of pollution, the balance of emissions embodied in trade (BEET) and the pollution terms of trade (PTT) for 18 manufacturing sectors of China and the US. between 2001 and 2010. The calculation aims to verify whether China has become a "pollution haven" in bilateral trade with developed countries represented by the U.S., and whether Chinese exports are "dirtier" compared with imports from the U.S., and further conducting an industry structure analysis and effect decomposition study on pollution embodied in trade in industrial goods between China and U.S.. Result of our research indicates that according to our calculation of the BEET, China remains a country with environmental deficits in bilateral trade with the U.S. while the gaps between pollution embodied in China's export and import are narrowing. Pollution embodied in China's export has the tendency of increase before decline while pollution embodied in import demonstrates no significant tendency of decline. Through effect decomposition, we further found that the effect of technology arising from the substantial decline of pollution intensity effectively lowered pollution embodied in export and narrowed the environmental deficits of China in its bilateral trade. The effect of scale arising from growing export volumes significantly increased China's environmental deficits while the structural effect arising from changes in the structure of import and export is insignificant in reducing environmental deficits. Our calculation of the PTT led to the finding that China's export goods are more pollution intensive compared with import goods and that the structure of US exports to China is cleaner than the structure of Chinese exports to the US., which requires further improvements of China's import and export structure.