This paper is concerned with the interaction of regulated efficiency and World Trade Organization (WTO) accession and its impact on China’s motor vehicle sector. The analysis is conducted using a 23 sector–25 region computable general equilibrium model. Regulatory reform and internal...

The authors reveal that on the one hand China alleviates inward FDI with a clear focus on promoting "quality" FDI with potential positive impacts also on local firms without direct investment relationships with multinational enterprises. On the other hand China lowers Most Favored Nation (MFN)...

It was probably a combination of the objective of a constructive response to external headwind from the United States (US) and to some extent also from the European Union (EU) as concerns China's investment and trade policies on the one hand and the intrinsic insight that opening up the...

The paper analyses the interests of China as a member of the G-21, which contributed to the failure of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún/Mexico in September 2003. It concludes that the median member of G-21 is more inward-looking and less reform-minded than China. A failure of the Doha...

The paper measures income elasticities of demand for manufacturing imports in China since 1990 disaggregated by major trading partners such as the US, Japan, Germany and rest of the EU. German exporters seem to have benefited from the hightest demand elasticities. The paper proposes explanatory...

The author shows that the US as the world's largest investor abroad so far shuns the most dynamic host region East Asia including China and instead continues to focus on investment in Europe. In contrast, Germany follows a different path. Similar to trade, German companies have been very active...

Die Autoren setzen sich kritisch mit dem am 11.06.2021 vom Deutschen Bundestag verabschiedeten "Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz" auseinander. Insgesamt kommen sie zu dem Schluss, dass das Lieferkettengesetz erhebliche entwicklungspolitische Nebenwirkungen haben könnte, die die intendierten...

China makes extensive use of subsidies in order to take a leading role on the global markets in the green technology sectors of electric vehicles, wind turbines and railway rolling stock. According to DiPippo et al. (2022) and recent OECD studies, the industrial subsidies in China are at least...

China setzt in großem Umfang Subventionen ein, um auch bei den grünen Technologiebranchen Elektrofahrzeuge, Windturbinen und Schienenfahrzeuge eine Führungsrolle auf den Weltmärkten einzunehmen. Die Industriesubventionen in China sind nach DiPippo et al. (2022) und aktuellen OECD Studien um...