China has dramatically increased its virtual water import over recent years. Many studies have focused on the quantity of traded virtual water, but very few go into analysing geographic distribution and the properties of China’s virtual water trade network. This paper provides a calculation and analysis of the crop-related virtual water trade network of China based on 27 major primary crops bet...

Previous studies have provided evidence that trade-related uncertainty tends to predict an increase in Bitcoin returns. In this paper, we extend the related literature by examining whether information on US–China trade war can be used forecast future path of returns, controlling for various explanatory variables. We apply ordinary least square (OLS) regression, support vector regression (SVR) a...

Abstract Existing theories of individual trade preferences do not satisfactorily explain how security concerns should affect American support for the US–China war that began in 2018. Although existing public attitudes toward international trade—economic self-interest, sociotropism, partisanship, reciprocity, and xenophobia—all help to initial war, these hypotheses adequately citizen context an ...