the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on …-level economic indicators, we find that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China …" businesses and technology pioneered by China, and that a system where only rich countries lead in innovation could limit …

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …

nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …

Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their … subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral …

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …

Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs …

sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …

model's firm-level predictions by using confidential microdata from Japan. We study the response of Japanese MNC parents and … of their affiliates in China to an exogenous change in China's openness to foreign direct investment (FDI). We find that … in industries where inward FDI was encouraged, Japan MNC's affiliates in China experienced increases in their employment …

by U.S. firms in electronics and computer-related machinery. The U.S. firms were followed, in electronics, by Japanese … Japanese firms played somewhat different roles. U.S. firms' investments were always distributed more along the lines of U ….S. export comparative advantage, far from the previous patterns of the host countries. The industry distribution of Japanese …