China's manufacturing sector has been a key source of the economy's dynamism. Analysis after 2007 however is hampered … annual survey of firms conducted by China's State Taxation Administration (STA) provides a reliable, alternative source of … known, the data cannot be used directly to draw inferences on China's manufacturing sector. By comparing the joint …

Market reforms can improve a country’s aggregate productivity growth by reallocating resources from the less to more … results show that market reforms in China’s iron and steel industry strengthen competition at the national level but do not … accounted for 14% of industry-level productivity growth. The results shed light on the importance of removing regional monopoly …

firm productivity. Using disaggregated Chinese firm‐level production data from 2004 to 2006, we find strong evidence that … output trade liberalization boosts firm productivity. More importantly, after controlling for the firm's self‐selection in … the market. The lower the firm productivity, the more is invested in the firm's worker training. Finally, the effect of …

This paper analyzes the causal relations between firms' productivity, factor intensity and export participation. Using … strong evidence of domestic firms self-selecting into export markets with higher productivity ex ante, and enhanced … productivity ex post. No such pattern is observed among foreign- invested firms. We also find that both domestic and foreign new …