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How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive
Koopman, Robert - 2008
The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …. By our estimation, the share of domestic content in exports by the PRC was about 50% before China's WTO membership, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464536
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Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints
Manova, Kalina - 2011
sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …
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Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment : Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?
Smarzynska, Beata K. - 2001
The 'pollution haven' hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in highly polluting activities, relocate to countries with weaker environmental standards. Despite the plausibility and popularity of this hypothesis, the existing literature has found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470253
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Corruption and Composition of Foreign Direct Investment : Firm-Level Evidence
Smarzynska, Beata K. - 2000
This paper studies the impact of corruption in a host country on foreign investor's preference for a joint venture versus a wholly-owned subsidiary. There is a basic trade-off in using local partners. On the one hand, corruption makes local bureaucracy less transparent and increases the value of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470767
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The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade
Ahn, JaeBin - 2010
census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …
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Introduction to "China's Growing Role in World Trade"
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2009
Over the last three decades, the value of Chinese trade has approximately doubled every four years. This rapid growth has transformed the country from a negligible player in world trade to the world's second largest exporter, as well as a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463931
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Globalization and Inequality : Evidence from Within China
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2001
, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470105
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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