This paper analyzes dynamic changes of China's intra-industry trade with its major trading partners, Japan and the US … empirical results show that, while shares of China's intra-industry trade with both Japan and U.S rose substantially, its intra … indicates that Japanese direct investment in China performed a significant role in enhancing intra-industry trade between Japan …

-2010 transition periods for China's primary trade partners. We disentangle total intra-industry trade into vertical intra … estimations suggest that China's HIIT is more likely to emerge with countries that are similar than with those that are different …. Conversely, China's VIIT happens more with different rather than with similar countries. And in the intra-industry trade, the …

Studi Luca d'Agliano).This paper uses detailed product-level export data for China and proposes an extension of the Antràs …-processing in China, pure-assembly and import-and-assembly. We find that if Chinese plants import materials and assemble them, the … plants engage in pure-assembly, under which regime ownership over the materials shipped to China remains with the foreign …

Using detailed product-level export data for China and a variant of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model that includes … outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has received enormous inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years …, including significant flows from Japan and the United States (US). We examine these investment flows in detail to gain … Japan's FDI flows have been much more concentrated in manufacturing, particularly in transport, electrical, and machinery …