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Intermediaries in Entrepot Trade : Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2001
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 …
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Accounting for Chinese Trade : Some National and Regional Considerations
Fung, K.C. - 1996
China's trade has three features: high incidence of re-exports through Hong Kong, high degree of trade related to ….S. data and accounting for re-exports, the U.S.-China trade balance has to be lowered by 35 percent. Foreign investments in … China accounted for 45 percent of China's exports. Foreign investments include foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign …
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Currency Carry Trade by Trucks : The Curious Case of China's Massive Imports from Itself
Liu, Xuepeng; Tang, Heiwai; Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
With capital controls, the standard financial market transactions needed for currency carry trade are hard to implement. Using detailed trade data reported by both the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong's governments, we present evidence that indirect currency carry trade likely takes place via...
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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine : Mainland China and Hong Kong
Almond, Douglas - 2007
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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Outsourcing Tariff Evasion : A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade
Fisman, Raymond - 2007
that entrepots may facilitate tariff evasion. Using data on direct exports to mainland China and indirect exports via Hong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465839
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China's New Regional Trade Agreements
Antkiewicz, Agata - 2004
This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the … WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in …
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The Value of Information in International Trade : Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469378
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The Stock Connect to China
He, Zhiguo; Wang, Yuehan; Zhu, Xiaoquan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
As a bridge between Chinese mainland and international financial markets, the Stock Connect program allows investors on both sides to gain mutual access. By analyzing how cross-border flows respond to macro-related shocks, we show that compared with possibly homemade foreign investors, genuine...
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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, R. Quentin - 2010
used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in … particular the Limarí Valley); (3) China (in particular, the North); (4) South Africa; and (5) the western United States. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462452
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Picture This : Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers
Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtěch; Licuanan, Victoria S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
International migrant workers are vulnerable to abuses by their employers. We implemented a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino women working as domestic workers (DWs) by their household employers in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. The intervention --...
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