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engaged in an incremental innovation by 4.48% using a random-sampled firm survey in China. The estimate is close to those in …
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Is China's demand for resources driven predominantly by domestic factors or by global demand for its exports? The … answer to this question is of interest given the highly resource-intensive nature of China's growth, and is important for … many resource-exporting countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Canada and India. This paper provides evidence that China …
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2008, we perform an in-depth anatomy of China's imports of manufactured goods. We estimate both the extensive margins … or trade partner – of China's imports. Our paper contributes to the literature of firm heterogeneity in international … a number of new stylized facts about China's imports. These, in turn, help us to gain a fuller understanding of China …
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We provide a sector perspective on the drivers of Chinese outward foreign direct investments (ODI) by analyzing the automotive sector over the years 2006–2011. Following the widespread literature on host-country determinants of foreign direct investments (FDI), we distinguish among economic,...
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Why do many of the world's most productive firms prefer global outsourcing to FDI? To address this issue, this paper introduces an intermediate-good producer to Antràs and Helpman's (2004) North–South model, where the Northern firms can employ the producer via an outsourcing contract and have...
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This study uses a theoretically justified gravity model of trade to examine the impact of the ASEAN–China Free Trade … Agreement (ACFTA) on exports, focusing on trade creation and diversion effects. The model is tested on a sample of 31 countries … substantial and significant trade creation. Using disaggregated data, the significant and positive relationship between exports …
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Using nationwide survey data in China, we find evidence of positive FDI spillover effects via entrepreneurship. After … counterparts in both their global involvement and internal management, which are the underlying channels of the spillovers. …
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In view of the importance of deliberate R&D activities in achieving productivity gain via exports for firms in … multinomial treatment effect estimation identifies that the joint decisions improve firms' labor productivity by 0.283. Moreover … impacts on firm's productivity. The complementarity test is implemented based on the supermodularity theory. After …
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the effects of China's economic growth on its current account. The results showed that as China switches from exports to … domestic demand as a key driver for economic growth, China's trade surplus would be expected to shrink rather quickly. …
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Recently, Foreign Invested Enterprises (FIEs) in China have increased their investment in not only production activity … innovations by Chinese domestic firms: Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and invention patent application, using comprehensive …
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