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 … difficulties these agreements create in moving to an Asian trade bloc centred on them …

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 … difficulties these agreements create in moving to an Asian trade bloc centred on them …

/sunk costs of this option are higher. Our results suggest that had China not liberalized its direct trading rights when it joined … the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …

noninspected firms. These findings highlight the importance of collective reputation in international trade and the challenges …

The trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for short - is associated with momentous … global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved … since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …

As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in … the country and its international economic policies has increased among international economists who are not China … major steps in the evolution of Chinese policy toward international trade and foreign direct investment and their …

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009 …. Looking at the entire political spectrum, we find that only extreme-right parties respond significantly to trade integration … using reduced form evidence and a causal mediation analysis. Two-thirds of the total effect of trade integration on voting …

increasing import penetration, China's entry into the WTO, and growing US multinational employment abroad. We find significant … between industry and occupational analyses. While other research has focused primarily on China's trade, we find that … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much …

In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … period 1988-1993. The central finding is that cities that experience a greater degree of openness in trade also tend to … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …