Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Title: China’s Belt and Road initiative- can Europe expect trade gains? Handle: RePEc:bre:wpaper:16296 Author-Name: Alicia García-Herrero Author-Name: Jianwei Xu Abstract: The Belt and Road aims to ease bottlenecks for cross-border trade in Asia, Europe and Africa. This paper measures empirically whether the reduction i Creation-Date: 2016-09 File-URL: https://phpstack-765020-2596826.cloudwaysapps.com/sites/default/files/wp_attachments/WP-05-2016.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf