Trade Openness and China''s Economic Development

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Yu Miaojie, Miaojie Yu, Miaojie (Peking University Yu, Yu Miaojie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367441845
• ISBN: 978-0-367-44184-5
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: China Perspectives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); China, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Commercial Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Economic theory & philosophy, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Economic theory and philosophy