This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the … WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in …

This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the … WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in …

, we provide a synopsis of China’s foreign trade and investment both in terms of patterns and volumes. The paper highlights …The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and …

investment. This has important implications for public policy since policies that impact on foreign direct investment are often …

trade flows and direct foreign investment positions with a sample of around 100 countries for the period 1985-1990. Country …. Taking other factors into account, however, Western Europe is more open to U.S. direct foreign investment. We also find that … relationships in that the residual correlation among exports, imports, and outward direct foreign investment is much larger than …

We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … with heterogeneous firms. We show that increased TPU reduces investment in export entry and technology upgrading, which in … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …

country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the … outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions (bargaining over tariffs and financial transfers) over time as China grows more … parameterizations. This yields a measure of both absolute and relative gain to China from bargaining. We calibrate our model to base …

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology …

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …

of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct …