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Online Appendix for the Vulnerability Effect that Wasnt: Trade Dependence and Entry Bans on China at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Authors

Yoon Ah Oh

Issue Date
2022
Publisher
University of California Press
Citation
Asian Survey (2022) 62 (4): 721-750
Keywords
trade dependenceentry baneconomic vulnerabilityChinaCOVID-19
Abstract
In response to the outbreak of a new viral infection in the early weeks of 2020, some countries imposed strict entry restrictions on visitors from China, while others opted for less stringent measures. Among the explanations for such variation, this study is focused on the argument that a countrys economic dependence on China, particularly via trade, affected its decision. This economic vulnerability argument posits that countries highly dependent on China for trade avoided imposing a ban because it might have caused (1) primary economic losses from trade disruptions and (2) secondary economic losses from Chinese sanctions. I empirically test this argument using an original data set on entry restrictions on China. The findings do not support such a hypothesis. Using the nonconforming cases of Japan and South Korea, I speculate that country-specific factors, which tend to be idiosyncratic and political, may have played a role.
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/179537

https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2022.1711062
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