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subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …
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This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the...
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in rural China. We construct a large panel data set of village administrative records to document the history of …
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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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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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that entrepots may facilitate tariff evasion. Using data on direct exports to mainland China and indirect exports via Hong …
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This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the …
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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 …
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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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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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