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Characterizing Global Value Chains : Production Length and Upstreamness

Wang, Zhi - 2017

We develop a new set of country-sector level indicators of Global Value Chains (GVCs) characteristics in terms of average production length, and relative "upstreamness" on a production network, which we argue are better than the existing ones in the literature. We distinguish production...

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How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive

Koopman, Robert - 2008

The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …. By our estimation, the share of domestic content in exports by the PRC was about 50% before China's WTO membership, and …

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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China versus the World

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2007

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?

Wang, Zhi - 2008

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 … export structure. On the other hand, processing trade, foreign invested firms, and government-sponsored high-tech zones all …

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Tracing Value Added in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment

Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin; Yu, Xinding; Zhu, Kunfu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop a unified framework to trace value added along global supply chains in the presence of foreign direct investment by decomposing either GDP based on forward linkages or final production based on backward linkages. The new framework accounts for the presence of foreign invested...

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Quantifying International Production Sharing at the Bilateral and Sector Levels

Wang, Zhi - 2013

This paper generalizes the gross exports accounting framework, initially proposed by Koopman, Wang, and Wei (2014) for a country's aggregate exports, to one at the sector, bilateral, and bilateral-sector levels. Such a generalization requires a conceptual distinction between value added exports...

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Tracing Value-added and Double Counting in Gross Exports

Koopman, Robert - 2012

This paper proposes a framework for gross exports accounting that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double counted terms. By identifying which parts of the official trade data are double counted and the sources of the double...

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Currency Carry Trade by Trucks : The Curious Case of China's Massive Imports from Itself

Liu, Xuepeng; Tang, Heiwai; Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

With capital controls, the standard financial market transactions needed for currency carry trade are hard to implement. Using detailed trade data reported by both the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong's governments, we present evidence that indirect currency carry trade likely takes place via...

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Re-examining the Effects of Trading with China on Local Labor Markets : A Supply Chain Perspective

Wang, Zhi - 2018

The United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US firms to expand employment. Using a … total impact of trading with China is a positive boost to local employment and real wages. The most important factor is …

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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income : Evidence from Rural China

Gan, Li - 2006

Using a sample of households in 48 Chinese villages for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies the dynamic effects of major health shocks on household income and the role played by village elections in mitigating these effects. Our results show that in the first 15 years after a shock, a...

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