features of China's extensive processing trade cause both the identification of imported intermediate goods, and their … intermediate goods imported into China. Vertical specialization is then estimated using two methods. The first method uses the … strong evidence of an Asian network of intermediate suppliers to China, and the two methods provide a range of estimates for …

This paper shows empirically that China’s trade balance is sensitive to fluctuations in the real effective exchange … other Southeast Asian countries which fall. This result reflects the vertical integration of Southeast Asia with China … through the 'Asian production network'. We find, in turn, that imports from Germany – which serve China’s domestic demand …

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the … values reflect quality the prevailing view of the literature is that China exports low quality varieties of the same products …

There have been profound changes in both political and economic institutions in China over the last twenty years …

The 6th Plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded on October 11, 2006, with … smashing into a barrier erected by an outsider. For hardware failure we discuss the possible weakening of China's fiscal … disorder caused by outmoded governance. And for power supply failure, we discuss the possible trade disputes from China …

for mainland China. In a stochastic modelling framework, the riskiness, rate of increase and persistence of house price …

China’s local government debt (LGD) has recently become the focus of economic policy debates. However, information … investigation of the impact of China’s LGD on economic growth. It is probably the first of its kind to focus on China and thus … assessment of LGD in China’s regional economies, using recently released auditing statistics and other available secondary …

This paper analyzes dynamic changes of China's intra-industry trade with its major trading partners, Japan and the US … empirical results show that, while shares of China's intra-industry trade with both Japan and U.S rose substantially, its intra … indicates that Japanese direct investment in China performed a significant role in enhancing intra-industry trade between Japan …

China and ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand). The empirical results generally support the …