Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate China's import-demand function for steel products within the context of globalisation. Design/methodology/approach – The research used the monthly data for the period 1996-2004 and a cointegration procedure is applied in the estimation....

A novel PdAg/TiO2 nanofiber electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation was fabricated by using TiO2 nanofiber as support. The structural and electrochemical properties of the PdAg/TiO2 nanofiber catalyst were characterized by XRD (X-ray diffraction), TEM (the transmission electron microscopy) and...

This article studies the effect of exchange rate regimes on the dramatic growth of the trade between China and Sub-Saharan Africa. A real exchange rate augmented gravity model shows that the exports of China?s manufactured goods are stimulated by the real depreciation of the renminbi against...

Since China's transition to a market economy, the labour productivity growth has been dramatically rapid, in particular since 1994. This speeding up has been accompanied by the reverse of the exchange rate policy of China, which has strongly depreciated its currency before 1994, and then either...

A bilateral export demand function is used to estimate the effects on the Chinese bilateral exports of three real exchange rates: (1) bilateral real exchange rate capturing the price-competitiveness of the Chinese products in the market of the considered import country (traditional effect); (2)...