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 …

How much has the US-China tariff war impacted economic outcomes in China? We address this question using high … grids with negligible direct exposure to the US tariffs accounted for up to 70% of China's population, we infer that the 2 … (manufacturing employment) relative to unaffected grids. By contrast, we do not find significant effects from China's retaliatory …

treaty port system of the West transformed China into an economy focused on coastal areas and on international trade that … aligned with the trading interests of the West. We show, first, that the West had a positive impact on China's economy during … by post-1978 reforms. The nearly 100 years of semi-colonization have shaped China's economy today as one focused on the …

over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …

We discuss business cycles in ancient China. Data on Ancient China business cycles are sparse and incomplete and so our … years for OECD countries and with major focus on the 1990's. Here we also probe material on Ancient China to see what is …

This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …

ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source … firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free trade agreement yields results that are consistent with these …

-by-country analysis, however, reveals diversity in the substitutability estimates. The four North East countries -- China, Hong Kong …, Japan, and Korea -- tend to share similar and moderate values of the substitution elasticity. For the five ASEAN countries …