different cities within China, This paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human …

"As China's export juggernaut employs many imported inputs, there are many policy questions for which it is crucial to …/tax-favored processing exports such as China, Mexico, and Vietnam. We develop a general formula for computing domestic and foreign contents … content in China's exports is at about 50%, almost twice the estimate given by the HIY formula. There are also interesting …

Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China … regions and sectors. By our calculation, if China succeeds in allocating its capital more efficiently, it could reduce its … capital stock by 8 percent without sacrificing its economic growth (and hence could raise its household consumption and …

China and America's other trading partners manipulate their exchange rates, and (b) the nature of the Chinese exchange rate … bilateral deficit, though other variables also turn out to be quite important. On the issue of China's de facto exchange rate …

census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …