industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export barriers. They are part of a more extensive strategy aiming at …We investigate why governments restrict exports of exotic raw materials taking rare earth elements as a case study … creating comparative advantages in these sectors and at overcoming path dependencies. Moreover, export barriers serve as a …

's final demand. Data is taken from the World Input-Output Database. The results suggest that rising final demand is the …

. Export restrictions imply a loss of Marshallian welfare of US$ 1.96 billion outside China. In the short run, even moderate …This paper investigates China's capability to exert power on Rare Earth markets until 2020. A dynamic partial … double compared to free trade, if assuming export restrictions to remain unchanged. Market power on Light Rare Earths …

exercise using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), a harmonized dataset comprising time-series of input-output tables along …