China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was a massive boostfor the multilateral trading system …. We present descriptive evidence on the trade effects of China's WTO accession. Moreover, we combine the most recent … approaches from the gravity literature of international trade to provide a causal analysis of the effects of China's WTO …

policies, WTO membership ensures that the course of China's economic development will be charted within the disciplines of the …This paper assesses the impact of China's accession to the World Trade Organization on its foreign trade and investment … regime. While the government had begun liberalizing the Chinese economy long before joining the WTO, the accession induced …