The COVID-19 epidemic has taken the world by surprise. Initially, it was seen as a Chinese, and later South-East Asian, problem.
We examine how many and what kind of firms ultimately rely on foreign inputs, sell to foreign markets, and are affected by trade shocks.
Rapidly increasing international food trade has drastically altered the global food system over the past decades.
This article measures the trade interconnectedness among countries before and after the COVID-19 outbreak, and forecasts the future direction of trade.
International trade has been essential to pandemic-fighting efforts by nations across the globe. International trade has been essential to pandemic-fighting efforts by nations across the globe.
In the context of the new Digital Economy, defined by the massive dissemination of information and commercial content on the Internet and by the new relationship rules established with the development of Social Networks, we can find a set of institutions that have an active role in the rules defined in the Industrial; Social Ecosystem, […]
In this short paper, I assess how COVID-19-related disruptions in transportation services, as well as new demands for transportation services, could impact Canadian agricultural supply chains.
The current public health emergency will be followed by the mutually reinforcing economic and political crises that may ultimately lead to serious social disturbance as the costs of the pandemic will not only be high, but also unevenly distributed, both among countries and among different social groups within states.
