With China''s accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization''s most prominent nonmember. This paper …

, including the United States, to China and ROW. In addition, the share of China in East Asia’s final demand, especially … investment, rose sharply while that of Japan fell. On the supply side, the paper documents the rise of China into a “global … factory” and the steady shift in regional production and integration from Japan and the United States to China …

Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did … (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly concerned that China’s competition in the world goods and capital … markets may adversely affect their own growth prospects. This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for …

. Furthermore, the decomposition of aggregate BC comovement shows that the increase in trade with China has contributed the most to …