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This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter … China's domestic marketfragmentation along provincial borders great, but it also has become more severe atleast between 1992 …
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Our work contributes to the literature relating output structure and economic development by showing that growth gains from upgrading are not unconditional. Relying on data from a panel of Chinese cities, we show that the level of capabilities available to domestic firms operating in ordinary...
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We propose the first evaluation using micro-level data of the expected growth gains from the consistency of activities with local comparative advantage. Using firm level data from Chinese customs over 2000-2006, we investigate the relationship between the export performance of firms and how...
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State-owned firms and foreign-owned firms in China are not; Secondly, the geographical and sectoral presence of foreign … restructuring of the state-owned sector and further liberalization of foreign capital inflows in China can help to circumvent …
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This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter … China's domestic marketfragmentation along provincial borders great, but it also has become more severe atleast between 1992 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325322
This paper investigates the determinants of activities' location in Chinese provinces based on a unique panel data set, paying particular attention to the role of local protectionism. We estimate a model of production location across Chinese provinces that combines factor endowments and...
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This work investigates the motivations behind the Chinese fiscal policy on exports. It relies on very detailed product level (HS 6 digit) data over the period 2002-12 covering both export tax and export VAT rebate. It aims to uncover the respective importance of the various policy motivations...
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Since the early phase of the country modernization, the center of gravity of China’s economy has been alternately … located in the coastal area (Blue China) and in inland area (Yellow China). Such a shift is now taking place in China … thirty years), thanks to an outstanding convergence speed in industry. This rebalancing goes hand in hand with China’s new …
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Compared to most countries, China’s value-added tax (VAT) system is not neutral and makes it less advantageous to … been led China to be accused of providing its firms with an unfair advantage in global trade. We use city-specific export …
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Since the global crisis, China's foreign trade is no longer driven by its involvement in the global supply chains (i ….e. by processing trade) but its dynamics stems from China’s own domestic demand and supply. For foreign funded enterprises …, China is less and less a production base for export and more and more a domestic market to be captured, as shown by their …
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