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Was trade openness with China an initial driver of cross-country human coronavirus infections?
- Source :
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Journal of Economic Studies . 2022, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p112-125. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Purpose: This paper aims to consider if an initial driver of the cross-country global coronavirus pandemic was trade openness with China. Design/methodology/approach: The authors estimate simple, seemingly unrelated and zero-inflated count data specifications of a gravity model of trade between China and its trading partners, where the number of human coronavirus infections in a country is a function of the number of distinct good/services exported and imported from China. Findings: Parameter estimates reveal that the number of early cross-country human coronavirus infections increased with respect to trade openness with China, as measured by the number of distinct Chinese exported and imported goods/services, and can account for approximately 24% of early infections among China's trading partners. The findings suggest that one of the costs of trade openness and globalization is that they can be a driver of cross-country human disease pandemics. Originality/value: This inquiry constitutes a first approach at embedding the possible disease pandemic costs of free trade, trade openness and globalization within a trade gravity model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COVID-19 pandemic
*GRAVITY model (Social sciences)
*FREE trade
*PANDEMICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01443585
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Economic Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154312202
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-10-2020-0497