Intermediaries in Entrepot Trade: Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods

By Robert C. Feenstra, Gordon H. Hanson. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Buyer Power in International Markets (2009, neutral): “To show this, it suffices to compute (pi−p̃ N i ) as given by (10) and (7) respectively, which yields”
Product differentiation and duration of US import trade (2006, background): “et al., 2001); (3) lower price elasticities (Erkel-Rousse and Mirza, 2002; Broda and Weistein, 2004); (4) higher markups ( Feenstra and Hanson, 2004 ); (5) a greater impact of communication costs (Fink et al., 2002); (6) less frequent use of the US dollar as the main currency for trade (Goldberg and”
GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS: A SURVEY OF DRIVERS AND MEASURES (2016, positive): “Feenstra et al. (2000) find that the US content of imports of apparel and machinery and of transportation equipment from industrial countries, made through the US offshore assembly program, is characterised by relatively intense use of skilled-labour.”
Trade, Foreign Direct Investment or Acquisition: Optimal Entry Modes for Multinationals (2003, background): “This welfare gain translates into the usual welfare loss for the import competing local firm.”
Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis (2010, neutral): “Nearly all Chinese exports to Hong Kong are reexported (Feenstra & Hanson, 2004), so that the relevant exchange rate change is not with respect to the Hong Kong dollar but rather with respect to the ultimate export destination.”
Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring (2016, neutral): “1”
Trade, Production, and Protection Database, 1976–2004 (2007, result): “Consider the existence of entrepôts (countries that are neither the origin nor the final destination of trade but through which transits of trade occur), that may create accounting discrepancies between reported data and mirrored data (Hanson and Feenstra, 2001).”
China and the Global Political Economy (2007, background): “Second, the intermediary companies themselves market themselves as matchmakers with specialist expertise and specialist knowledge of China – technical, cultural and linguistic (Hanson and Feenstra 2001).”