Input Trade Liberalization in China

• Autore: Tian Wei
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 pages)
• Altri autori: YuMiaojie
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- Processing Trade, Trade Liberalisation, and Opening Up: China's Miracle of International Trade -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Comparative-Advantage-Following and Processing Trade -- 3 Trade Liberalisation and Firm Performance -- 4 Deeper Opening Up Against Financial Crisis -- 5 All-Around Opening Up and Trade Globalization -- References -- Imported Intermediate Inputs, Firm Productivity and Product Complexity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data -- 3 Measures, Empirics and the Results -- 3.1 Empirical Specifications -- 3.2 Role of Product Complexity -- 3.3 Endogeneity Issues -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1: Matched Statistics-Number of Firms -- Appendix 2: Estimates of Olley-Pakes TFP by Processing and Ordinary Firms Separately -- References -- Trade Liberalisation, Product Complexity and Productivity Improvement: Evidence from Chinese Firms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 China's Trade Liberalisation -- 3 The Methodology -- 3.1 Measuring Total Factor Productivity -- 3.2 Econometric Model -- 3.3 Classification of Complex and Simple Goods -- 4 Data -- 5 Empirical Results -- 5.1 Main Estimation Results -- 5.2 Complex Goods Versus Simple Goods -- 5.3 Choices of Depreciation Rates -- 5.4 Specifications of Periodic Differences -- 5.5 Endogeneity -- 5.6 Alternative Measure of Firm Productivity -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Processing Trade, Export Intensity, and Input Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Chinese Firms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data -- 2.1 Firm-Level Production Data -- 2.2 Product-Level Trade Data -- 2.3 The Matching Results -- 3 Measures and Empirics -- 3.1 Firm-Specific Input Tariffs -- 3.2 Firm-Specific External Tariffs -- 3.3 Estimation Framework -- 4 Empirical Results -- 4.1 Benchmark Results -- 4.2 First-Difference Estimates -- 4.3 Estimates for Entry and Exit. ; 4.4 Sources of the Reduction in Input Trade Costs -- 4.5 Endogeneity of the Measure of Input Tariffs -- 4.6 Further Quantile Estimates -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix -- References -- Processing Trade, Tariff Reductions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Firms -- 1 Special Tariff Treatment on Processing Trade -- 2 Data -- 2.1 Firm-Level Production Data -- 2.2 Product-Level Trade Data -- 2.3 Merged Data Set -- 3 Measures and Empirics -- 3.1 TFP Measures -- 3.2 Firm-Specific Tariffs -- 3.3 Industry-Specific Tariffs -- 3.4 Empirical Specification -- 4 Estimation Results -- 4.1 Baseline Results -- 4.2 Self-selection to Processing -- 4.3 Endogeneity Issues -- 4.4 Further Robustness Checks of 2SLS Estimates -- 4.5 Discussion of Channels -- 4.6 Economic Magnitudes and Welfare Contributions -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1: Matching Production and Trade Data Sets -- Appendix 2: The Augmented Olley-Pakes TFP Measures -- TFPOP Used in the Full-Sample Data Set -- TFPOP1 with Separate Estimates for Processing and Non-processing Firms -- TFPOP2 with Learning from Processing -- Appendix 3: Derivation of Domar-Aggregation Productivity -- References -- Firm R& -- D, Processing Trade and Input Trade Liberalisation: Evidence from Chinese Firms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data -- 3 Empirics and Results -- 3.1 Benchmark Estimates with the Full Sample -- 3.2 Estimates with the Merged Sample -- 3.3 Placebo Tests -- 3.4 Robustness Checks -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Input Trade Liberalization and Import Switching: Evidence from Chinese Firms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Measurement -- 2.1 Chinese Firm‐Level Production Data -- 2.2 Chinese Production‐Level Trade Data -- 2.3 Measurement of Firm‐Level Tariffs -- 3 Empirical Findings -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Trade Liberalisation and Chinese Firm's Exports: Sourcing from Indonesia. ; 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Measurement -- 2.1 Chinese Firm-Level Production Data -- 2.2 Chinese Trade Data -- 2.3 Measurement of Firm-Level Tariffs -- 3 Empirical Findings -- 3.1 Trade Liberalisation and Firm's Exports -- 3.2 Trade Liberalisation and Export Scope -- 3.3 Trade Liberalisation and Import Scope -- 3.4 More Robustness Checks -- 3.5 Dealing with Possible Endogeneity -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Measured Skill Premia and Input Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Chinese Firms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data, Measures, and Empirics -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Measures -- 2.3 Mincer Empirical Specification -- 3 Estimation Results -- 3.1 Baseline Mincer Regressions -- 3.2 Mincer Regressions Using Matched Sample -- 3.3 Estimates Using Panel Data -- 3.4 Endogeneity Issues -- 3.5 On the Possible Mechanism -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- All-Around Trade Liberalization and Firm-Level Employment: Theory and Evidence from China -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Motivation -- 2.1 Preferences and Demand -- 2.2 Production of Differentiated Goods -- 2.3 Pricing and Profits -- 2.4 Cutoff Productivity Levels and the Masses of Firms -- 2.5 Equilibrium and Trade Liberalization -- 2.6 Trade Liberalization and Firm-Level Employment -- 3 Data and Measures -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Firm-Level Tariff Measures -- 4 Liberalization and Chinese Firm-Level Employment -- 4.1 The Relevance of Heterogeneity in Productivity -- 4.2 Expansions and Contractions -- 4.3 Heterogenous Impact of Trade Liberalization by Firm Type -- 4.4 Employment Responses of Switchers -- 5 Robustness -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Theoretical Appendix: Proofs -- Appendix 2: Supporting Tables and Figures -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Input Trade Liberalization in China
• ISBN: 981-9975-99-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910770263003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to Economics Series