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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 …
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In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary … services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides … China exported to the rest of the world. Our results suggests that gains to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong …
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In this paper, we examine Hong Kong's role in intermediating trade between China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong … distributes a large fraction of China's exports. Net of customs, insurance, and freight charges, re-exports of Chinese goods are … higher for differentiated products, products with higher variance in export prices, products sent to China for further …
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China's trade has three features: high incidence of re-exports through Hong Kong, high degree of trade related to ….S. data and accounting for re-exports, the U.S.-China trade balance has to be lowered by 35 percent. Foreign investments in … China accounted for 45 percent of China's exports. Foreign investments include foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign …
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This paper analyses policy interdependence under flexible exchange rates and its implications for middle-income countries in the Pacific area. In the first part of the paper, the consequences of strategic behavior among industrial countries are illustrated by means of a simple diagram. It is...
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Using highly-disaggregated transaction-level trade data, we document the importance of new firm-level trade partner relationships and the addition of new products to existing relationships in driving long-run import flows. Moreover, we find that these margins are sensitive to movements in the...
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This paper discusses the profound difficulties of maintaining fixed exchange rates in a world of expanding global capital markets. Contrary to popular wisdom, industrialized-country monetary authorities easily have the resources to defend exchange parities against virtually any private...
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We show that exchange rate correlations tend to be explained by the global trade network while consumption correlations tend to be explained by productivity correlations. Sharing common trade linkages with other countries increases exchange rate correlations beyond bilateral linkages. We explain...
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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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This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...
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