cross-provincial variation in institutional quality in China, and export data that distinguishes between foreign and …

Dooley et al (2003, 2004a,b,c) argue that China seeks to raise urban employment by 10-12 million persons per year, with … conclude that exports have become increasingly important in stimulating employment in China, but that the same gains could be …

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We … observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes …. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China tend to split factory ownership and input control with managers in China …

In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary … services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides … China exported to the rest of the world. Our results suggests that gains to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong …

In this paper, we examine Hong Kong's role in intermediating trade between China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong … distributes a large fraction of China's exports. Net of customs, insurance, and freight charges, re-exports of Chinese goods are … higher for differentiated products, products with higher variance in export prices, products sent to China for further …