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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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The 2005 split-share reform in China mandated the conversion of nontradable stocks into tradable status. This paper …
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technical efficiency. We examine how industrial firms responded to China's severe power shortages in the early 2000s. Fast …
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This paper uses a firm level multi-industry data set covering 456 Chinese manufacturing sectors to assess the implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences in both industry and firm characteristics within...
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This paper examines why credit constraints for domestic and exporting firms arise in a setting where banks do not observe firms' productivities. To maintain incentive-compatibility, banks lend below the amount needed for first-best production. The longer time needed for export shipments induces...
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wisdom, we find that ethnic-Chinese FDI firms in China in fact underperform non-ethnic-Chinese FDI firms. We also find that …
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This paper uses newly available data on Chinese trade flows to establish novel and confirm existing stylized facts about firm heterogeneity in trade. First, the bulk of exports and imports are captured by a few multi-product firms that transact with a large number of countries. Second, the...
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political rent seeking is substantial, firm value might rise as economy performance decays. China offers a suitable background …
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We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the pre-crisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for...
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The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two … decades. Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2013, we show that …
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