sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint … ventures have better export performance than private domestic firms in financially more vulnerable sectors. These results are …

explain this puzzle. From analyzing bank loan data associated with China's introduction of the Qualified Foreign Institutional …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we adopt a cross-country perspective to examine the evolution of capital flows into China, both in terms … of volumes and composition. China's inflows have generally been dominated by foreign direct investment (FDI), a pattern … globalization. We provide a detailed documentation of the evolution of China's capital controls, a proximate determinant of the …

census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms … their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …

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 …