Early in the COVID‐19 pandemic, a global shortage of hospital gowns, gloves, surgical
masks, and respirators caused policymakers globally to panic. China increased imports and …

This paper presents new high‐frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical
and food products since the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic, documenting how …

Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can
decoupling from GVCs increase a country's welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign …

The novel Coronavirus has disrupted the global economy, and in particular international
trade (Baldwin, 2020a). According to the'World Trade Statistical Report 2020', published by …

To curb the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on public health, many countries around the
world introduced lockdown policies in 2020. This paper estimates the effect of these …

We conduct an in‐depth analysis of the reasons for changes in global value chains as a
result of COVID‐19 both from a positive angle, analysing expected changes in the behaviour …

The aim of this study is to quantify how lockdown policies implemented in response to the
COVID-19 pandemic affected international trade in the first half of 2020. We examine …

This paper analyses a prominent dimension of the initial policy response to the COVID‐19
pandemic observed in many countries: the imposition of export restrictions and actions to …

This study empirically investigates what kinds of countries imported and exported medical
products during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We examine the bilateral trade values of medical …

In this paper, time-series and cross-country data spanning from January 2020 to December
2020 are adopted to empirically investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on …