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This paper highlights the severity of China’s AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD provisions. Case studies on RTAs give precedents in...
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This paper investigates the changing nature of economic integration in China. Specifically, we consider business-cycle synchronization (correlation of demand and supply shocks) among Chinese provinces during the period 1955-2007. We find that the symmetry of supply shocks has declined after the...
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We examine the gains from Chinese accession to the WTO. Using Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodríguez-Clare (2012) we … evaluate how the increased openness caused by China's accession to the WTO effects the importing and exporting sectors. We find …
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strategic manipulation of world prices. The policy prediction is unclear, however, since international cross-ownership also …
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-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages. We calibrate the model and perform a counterfactual analysis of China's WTO …-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly … replicates the increase in the DVA ratio, driven by the export-processing zones. Furthermore, our results imply that China's WTO …
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In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...
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actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
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This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
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trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …
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Chinese firms faced an all-around trade liberalization process during the early 2000s: lower barriers from other countries on Chinese goods, and lower Chinese barriers on other countries' goods and inputs. Using novel firm-level tariff data for trading Chinese manufacturing firms, this paper...
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