Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … exports and set the stage for China's increases in domestic value added and reduction in China's involvement in global … production sharing since that time. The assessment in this paper, based on export data and simulation results on the ex ante …

export sales after entry (the intensive margin), particularly in industries that rely more heavily on relationship … survival of new export products in more contract-intensive industries. These results have important policy implications for … developing countries that seek to boost export growth but many of which suffer from poor contracting institutions …