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Processing Trade, Exchange Rates, and the People’s Republic of China’s Bilateral Trade Balances
Xing, Yuqing - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This paper analyzes the role of processing trade in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s bilateral trade … while its processing imports from East Asian economies are eleven times those from other regions; (3) the PRC is one of the …
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Processing trade, exchange rates and China's bilateral trade balances
Xing, Yuqing - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 5, pp. 540-547
This paper analyzes the role of processing trade in China's bilateral trade balances and the impact of the yuan's appreciation on China's processing trade. The analysis is based on panel data covering bilateral processing trade between China and its partners from 1993 to 2008. The empirical...
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Export upgrading and growth: the prerequisite of domestic embeddedness
Poncet, Sandra; Starosta de Waldemar, Felipe - 2012
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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Made and created in China : super processors and two-way heterogeneity
Chen, Zhiyuan; Erbahar, Aksel; Zi, Yuan - 2019
In this paper, we show that there exists a special breed of firms that are active in both ordinary and processing exports. Contrary to the existing literature that describes processing firms as inferior, these mixed firms are superior to other firms in multiple dimensions, and hence we call them...
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A World Factory in Global Production Chains: Estimating Imported Value Added in Chinese Exports
Koopman, Robert; Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other … exports by the PRC is about 50%. There are also interesting variations across sectors. Those sectors that are likely labeled … PRC’s exports of computers and consumer electronics, two of its largest and fastest growing export categories. …
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Tax avoidance through re-imports: The case of redundant trade
Liu, Xuepeng - In: Journal of Development Economics 104 (2013) C, pp. 152-164
Many countries have participated in re-imports, a type of round-trip trade originating from a country and back to the same country. China, as the largest re-importer, has imported more from itself than from the U.S. since 2005. As the first empirical study on re-imports, this paper shows that...
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Export sophistication and economic growth: Evidence from China
Jarreau, Joachim; Poncet, Sandra - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 281-292
We consider the effect of export sophistication on economic performance by appealing to regional variation within one single country (China) over the 1997–2009 period. We find evidence in support of Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007), in that regions specializing in more sophisticated goods...
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Processing Trade, Exchange Rates, and the People’s Republic of China’s Bilateral Trade Balances
Xing, Yuqing - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the role of processing trade in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s bilateral trade balances and … the impact of the yuan’s appreciation on processing trade. The analysis is based on panel data covering the PRC’s 51 … trading partners from 1993–2008. The empirical analysis shows that: (1) processing trade accounts for 100% of the PRC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863961
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The effect of exchange rate movements on heterogeneous plants: A quantile regression analysis
Tomlin, Ben; Fung, Loretta - 2010
In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink...
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A new measure of the Canadian effective exchange rate
Barnett, Russell; Charbonneau, Karyne; Poulin-Bellisle, … - 2016
Canada's international competitiveness has received increasing attention in recent years as exports have fallen short of expectations and Canada has lost market share. This paper asks whether the Bank of Canada's current effective exchange rate measure, the CERI, is still an accurate measure of...
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