采购
2019年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)
政府(语言学)
公共政策
经济
大流行
政府采购
维数(图论)
国际贸易
业务
商业政策
经验证据
国际经济学
公共经济学
经济增长
医学
病理
哲学
认识论
管理
纯数学
传染病(医学专业)
语言学
疾病
数学
作者
Bernard Hoekman,Anirudh Shingal,Varun Eknath,Viktoriya Ereshchenko
摘要
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 facilitate imports. Using weekly data on the use of trade policy instruments during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic (January-July, 2020), we assess the relationship between the use of trade policy instruments and attributes of pre-crisis public procurement regulation. Controlling for country size, government effectiveness and economic factors, we find that use of export restrictions targeting medical products is strongly positively correlated with the total number of steps and average time required to complete procurement processes in the pre-crisis period. Membership of trade agreements encompassing public procurement disciplines is associated with actions to facilitate trade in medical products. These findings suggest future empirical assessments of the drivers of trade policy during the pandemic should consider public procurement systems.
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