Trade Openness and China's Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9780367441845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 406 str.

Miaojie Yu

Opis

Deploying classic Western economic models as well as a large amount of micro-level empirical evidence, this book systematically examines how China’s openness policies have affected the upgrading of manufacturing and economic development within the country in recent years.

Spis treści

PART I Macro-perspective   1 Industrial structural upgrading and poverty reduction in China   2 Labor, demography, and the export-oriented growth model in China   3 China’s manufacturing value chain ascent to date   PART II Micro-evidence   4 China’s processing trade: a firm-level analysis   5 Unexceptional exporter performance in China? The role of processing trade   6 Processing trade, tariff reductions, and firm productivity: evidence from Chinese firms   7 Trade liberalization, product complexity, and productivity improvement: evidence from Chinese firms   8 Processing trade, export intensity, and input trade liberalization: evidence from Chinese firms   PART III Channels and mechanisms   9 Exports and credit constraints under incomplete information: theory and evidence from China   10 Input trade liberalization, processing firms, and firm R&D: empirical evidence from Chinese firms   11 Imports, product complexity, and firm productivity   12 Firm R&D, absorptive capacity, and learning by exporting: firm-level evidence from China   PART IV International comparison    13 China and India: trends in trade over the last decade    14 The impact of China’s trade on ASEAN’s trade Appendices   Bibliography   Index

O autorze

Miaojie Yu is the University Liberal Art Chair Professor, China’s Chang-Jiang scholar, and Deputy Dean of National School of Development, Peking University. His research interests include international trade and Chinese economy. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and won the prize of Royal Economic Society (2015).