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 …

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 …

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 …

distribution of R&D and TFP growth in China during the period 2007--2012. The estimated model fits the Chinese data well. We … compare the estimates with those obtained using data for Taiwan and find the results to be robust. We perform counterfactuals …

subcontracting. `Illegal' trade between China and Taiwan has been induced by Taiwan's `no direct trade' policy. Illegal trade such as …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 …