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Missing the China factor: evidence from Brazil and Mexico 忽略了中国因素:来自巴西和墨西哥的证据

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1933767

Marco Cepik, Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos, Rafael R. Ioris

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引用次数: 3

Engaging the dragon: UK government documents on doing business with China 与中国龙接触:英国政府与中国做生意的文件

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-06-26 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1933770

Yue Ming, M. Plouffe

引用次数: 1

Economic relations and the public image of China in Latin America: a cross-country time-series analysis 拉美经济关系与中国公众形象的跨国时间序列分析

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1914414

Yi Feng, Qingjie Zeng

{"title":"Economic relations and the public image of China in Latin America: a cross-country time-series analysis","authors":"Yi Feng, Qingjie Zeng","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1914414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1914414","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates the impact of Chinese economic activities in Latin America on the national image of China in the region. Using economic and public opinion data from 17 Latin American countries from 2001 to 2016, this work relates cross-national time-series variations regarding China’s image in Latin America to changes in the economic ties (such as trade, FDI, and contracts) between the perceiving countries and China. Controlling for the size of the economy and the level of its development, the statistical analysis indicates that trade surplus against China in Latin America has a positive effect on the public perceptions of China in the region, while Chinese FDI outflows to Latin America lead to a negative effect. The effects of Chinese contracts, imports, and exports tend not to be statistically significant. We also find less developed Latin American countries with low life expectancy and low educational attainment tend to have a more positive view of China than their richer counterparts in the region. Finally, we find that Latin American countries under presidents with left-wing ideology have a much more positive view of China than countries under presidents with other ideological preferences. Diplomatic relations with China and China’s soft power influence as indexed by the presence of Confucius Institutes do not exhibit a strong impact on China’s national image in Latin America, compared with the dominant political ideology in a Latin American country as reflected in the president’s ideology.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":"10 1","pages":"181 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1914414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41589434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

US economic and trade sanctions against China: A loss-loss confrontation 美国对中国的经贸制裁：一场损失惨重的对抗

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-06-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195

Liang Guo, Sizhu Wang, Nicole Z. Xu

{"title":"US economic and trade sanctions against China: A loss-loss confrontation","authors":"Liang Guo, Sizhu Wang, Nicole Z. Xu","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The economic and trade sanctions implemented by the United States (US) against China have lasted for a few decades and the structural imbalance of the US–China trade relationship has ultimately been escalated to a trade war recently. We examine the economic impacts of US sanctions against China on both sponsor and target countries during the last 20 years. We find that such impacts have significantly changed over time. On one hand, US economic sanctions have gradually extended from China’s labour-intensive to high value-added products and they have largely slowed down China’s trade growth for the last decade. On the other hand, US consumers and businesses have faced higher prices and production costs for Chinese imports (or import substitutes) in the wake of the increasing US trade sanctions, leading to great deadweight losses to the sponsor country. In addition, US economic and trade sanctions against China have largely impacted other economies involved in US–China trade as well. The intermediary status of the Hong Kong SAR has been greatly challenged. Overall, US economic and trade sanctions have caused pain on both China and the US, but their impact on China (the target country) has been largely weakened.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":"11 1","pages":"17 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1920195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49280417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

The intention of banks to adopt green banking in an emerging market: the employees’ perspective 银行在新兴市场采用绿色银行的意图：员工视角

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-03-30 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621

Eugene Okyere-Kwakye, Khalil Md Nor

{"title":"The intention of banks to adopt green banking in an emerging market: the employees’ perspective","authors":"Eugene Okyere-Kwakye, Khalil Md Nor","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Green banking is a comparatively new development in the financial world. It is a form of banking that considers the social and environmental impacts of banking activities. Most studies on green banking focussed on customers, management, and other stakeholders without considering the perspective of employees, whose daily work is normally affected. To fill in the gap, the primary aim of this study is to assess factors affecting the intention of banks to adopt green banking from the perspective of employees. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 94 employees at selected banks in Koforidua, the eastern region of Ghana. Multiple regression was used to analyse the data. The study finds a significantly positive relationship between management support and intention of banks to adopt green banking. However, pressures from competitors and customers are found not to have a significant impact on banks’ intention to adopt green banking. While these results are unexpected and disappointing, they provide important insights in the context that changing initiatives from the perspective of common employees are internally driven instead of externally driven. This suggests the importance of management’s role in facilitating green banking initiatives.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":"9 1","pages":"497 - 504"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1899621","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42584578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

News coverage of Confucius Institutes in the pre-Trump era 前特朗普时代孔子学院的新闻报道

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-02-13 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1870025

M. Akhtaruzzaman, N. Berg, D. Lien, Ying Wu

{"title":"News coverage of Confucius Institutes in the pre-Trump era","authors":"M. Akhtaruzzaman, N. Berg, D. Lien, Ying Wu","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2020.1870025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2020.1870025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A novel dataset is presented that reveals a general pattern of declining favourability in news stories about Confucius Institutes (CIs) from 2006 through 2015 in six English-speaking countries: the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, India and Kenya. There are significant differences in mean favourability and time trends across countries, however. Decreasing trends in favourability are observed in the US and Canada, in particular, whereas Kenya and India’s time trends are nil or possibly increasing. We report empirical models of favourability conditional on GDP per capita, trade with China and the number of CIs across country-year observations. Consistent with Pew polling data, our data reveal an interesting pair of conflicting income effects. High-income countries tend to be more negative and less positive on CIs than low-income countries overall. Within-country positive shocks to real GDP per capita, however, are positively associated with favourability after cross-country differences in income levels are absorbed by country fixed effects. The number of CIs in a country has mixed effects on the favourability of news coverage about CIs across country-year observations. Despite billions of dollars spent on public diplomacy by the Chinese government, our findings suggest that its return on investment in public diplomacy in the form of CIs may not be as expected.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":"10 1","pages":"155 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2020.1870025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45386581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Roles of commodity futures derivatives and financial crises in global food security 商品期货衍生品和金融危机在全球粮食安全中的作用

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1872854

Victor Edem Sosoo, David Iheke Okorie, Hai-qiang Chen

{"title":"Roles of commodity futures derivatives and financial crises in global food security","authors":"Victor Edem Sosoo, David Iheke Okorie, Hai-qiang Chen","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1872854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1872854","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Commodity futures have been largely blamed for the price hikes in 2007/mid-2008 and 2010/2011 and the decreased food security around the world, especially in less developed countries. There still exist serious disagreements between most economists and policymakers as to whether this is the case. We run time-series regressions for all samples and subsamples for lower-income, middle-income, and high-income countries respectively. The empirical results show that commodity futures have a more significant negative impact on food security in low-income countries than in middle-income and high-income economies. Financial crises, however, have a significant impact on food security in all the regional divisions as a whole and are seen to exasperate the negative effect of some of the commodity futures on food security. We also find evidence that a certain degree of speculation in some commodities stabilises prices of those commodities as expected by theory. Our results have important policy implications as policymakers must control these speculations but should also be careful not to overregulate the market.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":"9 1","pages":"336 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1872854","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48008576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

The economics of soft power: Reliance on economic resources and instrumentality in economic gains 软实力经济学：经济收益对经济资源和工具的依赖

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-25 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1865620

Daniele Carminati

{"title":"The economics of soft power: Reliance on economic resources and instrumentality in economic gains","authors":"Daniele Carminati","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2020.1865620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2020.1865620","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Soft power is commonly presented as an alternative or a complement to harder forms of power, such as military and economic might. However, while it is safer to say that soft power does not depend on military capabilities, it is not as straightforward to separate soft power from its economic counterpart. Juxtaposing various soft power rankings with a country’s economic assets may reveal how soft power relies on economic resources. Moreover, when closely scrutinised, it is possible to appreciate how dynamics of attraction are also closely intertwined with economic gains. In an increasingly connected world, soft power could prove to be instrumental in achieving economic success. Economic effects are expected to be more consistent, observable, and attainable when compared to political ones, such as spreading democracy. Far from arguing that soft power is unable to assist in achieving political goals in the long term, this paper aims instead to highlight how a narrow culture-centred analysis of soft power greatly limits the understanding of this power in the real world, and results in the underestimation of its value and impact. China’s quest to connect the world through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a topical case through which to further explore the soft–economic power nexus.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":"10 1","pages":"19 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2020.1865620","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48701819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

How an All-or-Nothing insurance behaviour challenges economic policies: an experimental approach 要么全有要么全无的保险行为如何挑战经济政策：一种实验方法

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1815397

Anne Corcos, François Pannequin, C. Montmarquette

引用次数: 1

Exposure to conspiracy theories in the lab 在实验室中暴露于阴谋论

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1818930

Loukas Balafoutas, Alexander Libman, Vasileios Selamis, B. Vollan

引用次数: 1