TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ma,Zihui
AU  - Cheng,Leonard
TI  - The Effects of Financial Crises on International Trade
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10172
PY  - 2003
Y2  - December 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10172
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10172.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Zihui Ma
Renmin University of China
School of Economics
Beijing, 100872
P.R. China
E-Mail: mazihui@gmail.com

Leonard Cheng
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Department of Economics
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon, Hong Kong, CHINA
E-Mail: leonard@ust.hk
M1  - published as Zihui Ma, Leonard Cheng. "The Effects of Financial Crises on International Trade," in Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, editors, "International Trade in East Asia, NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 14" University of Chicago Press (2005)

AB  - This paper studies empirically the effects of financial crises on international trade.  The major findings are that banking crises had a negative impact on imports but a positive impact on exports in the short term, whereas currency crises decreased imports in the short term and stimulated exports in the longer term.
ER  -