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In the light of a recent surge in the amount of research and policy formulation in the field of t... more In the light of a recent surge in the amount of research and policy formulation in the field of trade finance, this paper sets out to discover and summarize the contemporary consensus on the subject with a particular emphasis on the role of public trade finance facilities within the wider ecosystems of export finance and international trade. The enquiry relies on a review of the most recent academic literature in the field, a limited survey of institutional, policy and other non-academic publications pertaining to trade finance, and a comparison of information available on several institutions that administer public trade finance facilities.
The author finds that there exists no clear consensus on the exact effects of trade finance on trade, the causes of demand for trade finance, or its interaction with other financial and economic variables. It thus remains unclear if, how much and what type of government intervention in the trade finance market is desirable from the perspective of sustained economic growth and trade. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the risk and credit markets for international trade show substantial market failure and that government sponsored trade finance fulfils various essential functions in the international economy, over and beyond market correction.
This thesis inquires into the structure of contemporary knowledge production on China through a p... more This thesis inquires into the structure of contemporary knowledge production on China through a particular emphasis on the organization of academic expertise across the range of Area Studies and traditional disciplines, the functioning of and incentive structure within the academic field and consequences for the usefulness and consumption of knowledge. Conclusions include: that the compartmentalization into multiple communities of academic knowledge production on one subject area may harm the validity and quality of of conclusions about wider issues of importance when this makes falsification difficult; that the products of ‘Area’ and ‘disciplinary’ scholarship tend to feed into different theoretical discourses (if at all) and reach different audiences; that ‘Area’ and ‘disciplinary’ style scholarship thus have different implications for the public legitimacy and the academic legitimacy of the China field.
In the light of a recent surge in the amount of research and policy formulation in the field of t... more In the light of a recent surge in the amount of research and policy formulation in the field of trade finance, this paper sets out to discover and summarize the contemporary consensus on the subject with a particular emphasis on the role of public trade finance facilities within the wider ecosystems of export finance and international trade. The enquiry relies on a review of the most recent academic literature in the field, a limited survey of institutional, policy and other non-academic publications pertaining to trade finance, and a comparison of information available on several institutions that administer public trade finance facilities.
The author finds that there exists no clear consensus on the exact effects of trade finance on trade, the causes of demand for trade finance, or its interaction with other financial and economic variables. It thus remains unclear if, how much and what type of government intervention in the trade finance market is desirable from the perspective of sustained economic growth and trade. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the risk and credit markets for international trade show substantial market failure and that government sponsored trade finance fulfils various essential functions in the international economy, over and beyond market correction.
This thesis inquires into the structure of contemporary knowledge production on China through a p... more This thesis inquires into the structure of contemporary knowledge production on China through a particular emphasis on the organization of academic expertise across the range of Area Studies and traditional disciplines, the functioning of and incentive structure within the academic field and consequences for the usefulness and consumption of knowledge. Conclusions include: that the compartmentalization into multiple communities of academic knowledge production on one subject area may harm the validity and quality of of conclusions about wider issues of importance when this makes falsification difficult; that the products of ‘Area’ and ‘disciplinary’ scholarship tend to feed into different theoretical discourses (if at all) and reach different audiences; that ‘Area’ and ‘disciplinary’ style scholarship thus have different implications for the public legitimacy and the academic legitimacy of the China field.