, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … results imply that China's WTO accession was the driving force behind the strengthening of production networks with its …

In the 2000s, China's WTO entry constituted a major trade shock. In this paper, we analyze its eff ects on trade and … estimate the gravity model's key parameters. The simulation then hypothetically sets tari s w.r.t. China back to their pre …-accession levels. We find that China's WTO entry strengthend the Asian production network. Chinese value added in exports reduced and …

-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages. We calibrate the model and perform a counterfactual analysis of China's WTO …-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly … replicates the increase in the DVA ratio, driven by the export-processing zones. Furthermore, our results imply that China's WTO …