China has become the United States' largest import source, second largest trading partner, and third largest export market. However, political tensions over trade relations between these two countries continue growing. ...

Following the financial crisis there were many questions raised about the proper role and efficacy of monetary and fiscal policy. One such area of debate surrounds the effects of changes to interest rates have on household ...

The Renminbi (RMB) and U.S. dollar (USD) exchange rate and its association with China-U.S. bilateral trade has been a hot issue of debate on both sides of the Pacific for many years. This paper tests the hypothesis that ...

How does an economies regime type affect corruption rates observed within a nation? Past empirical studies have looked at both regime type and corruption rates using several different techniques; however past empirical ...

Government procurement accounts for 14 to 19 percent of world GDP, and if entirely liberalized, could increase the value of world trade by up to 30 percent. However, governments commonly reserve the majority of their ...

India, like many countries in the Global South finds itself in the midst of a demographic transition. Though lagging behind some nations like China, India is rapidly urbanizing and is set to cross the majority-urban mark ...

Policymakers often characterize Middle Eastern conflict as religiously-motivated and identity-driven, assuming that religious intolerance is innate, ossified, and destined to fuel conflict well into the future. This paper ...

International trade markets are shaped by different standards and technical regulations across countries and regions affecting trade. This paper analyzes the relationship between international standards and exports for ...

During the Great Recession in the United States, a myriad of policy tools were used in the hopes stimulating a stagnant economy. The purpose of this paper is to look into the effects of one such tool that was used, the ...