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I am a PhD candidate in Economics at London Business School, advised by Professor Hélène Rey and expected to graduate in Spring 2026. My research interests include applied macroeconomics, international trade, monetary policy, and geoeconomics.
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This paper studies how foreign ownership of maritime infrastructure reshapes inland trade networks. I combine hand-collected data on Chinese state-backed acquisitions of European ports with 1.5 million truck-level shipments linking 368 NUTS2 European regions between 2011 and 2022. Using a continuous-treatment event study that leverages the policy-driven and externally timed rollout of China’s Maritime Silk Road, I estimate heterogeneous effects across European regions based on their baseline port reliance. Regions more exposed to Chinese port acquisitions experience relatively larger contractions in trade along both the intensive and extensive margins. The results reveal a reconfiguration of trade corridors, consistent with a shift toward containerized transport within existing industrial structures. From a policy perspective, the results speak directly to Europe’s strategic concerns, highlighting the challenge of balancing openness to foreign capital with the need to safeguard resilience in the governance of critical trade infrastructure.
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