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This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by firm interviews that suggested substantial heterogeneity across firms in how they responded to Wal-Mart's entry, we develop a dynamic industry model in which firms decide whether...
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Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...
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China was the largest economy in the world before the end of the 19th century; then became one of the poorest countries … in the world in a few decades. Now China is returning to its historical past. To understand China’s development, and to … understand where and how far China will move forward, this paper examines how its institution functioning. …
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Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that …
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In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …
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, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the … global financial crisis. These results are consistent with China’s dominance hypothesis and with the view that the … international monetary system is already tri-polar. However, we also find that China’s currency movements are to some extent …
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Performance-based promotion schemes in administrative hierarchies have limitations. Chinese provincial leaders, despite facing strong career concerns, make different policy decisions depending on their career backgrounds. Provincial party secretaries who rose from low to high positions within...
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We use available methods for testing macro models to evaluate a model of China over the period from Deng Xiaoping …
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If trade barriers are managed by inefficient institutions, trade liberalization can lead to greater-than-expected gains. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the removal of externally imposed quotas. Both the surge in export volumes and the decline in prices after the...
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In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …
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