China's Embrace of Globalization

By Lee Branstetter, N. Lardy. 2006

415 citations recorded by the source corpus.

As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among international economists who are not China specialists. This paper represents an attempt to provide the international economics community with a succinct summary of the major steps in the evolution of Chinese policy toward international trade and foreign direct investment and their consequences since the late 1970s. In doing so, we draw upon and update a number of more comprehensive book-length treatments of the subject. It is our hope that this paper will prove to be a useful resource for the growing numbers of international economists who are exploring China-related issues, either in the classroom or in their own research.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fc84e50fdb13995ce4a59bafc79f4184ca073e1c

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future (2012, neutral): “As part of the lead-up to China’s joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, China’s government also started to cut tariffs, broadened trade rights, and liberalized its regime for foreign direct investment (Branstetter and Lardy 2008).”
• Input-trade liberalization, export prices and quality upgrading (2015, neutral): “China’s trade policy is characterized by a dual system which distinguishes two main trade regimes depending on the type of goods traded (Feenstra, 1998, Branstetter and Lardy, 2006).”
• The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States (2013, neutral): “These product demand shocks motivate our empirical measure of exposure to import competition as well as our identification strategy.”
• Development Models and Industrial Upgrading in China and Mexico (2008, neutral): “Barboza (2004), for example, lays out in Figure 3 the incredible specialization and scale that characterizes China’s diversified export success in the apparel industry, even before the phase-out of the multifibre arrangement and apparel quotas by the WTO on 1 January 2005.”
• International competition and industrial evolution: Evidence from the impact of Chinese competition on Mexican maquiladoras (2013, neutral): “Due to complaints from leaders of the maquiladora industry, the Mexican government revised its regulations of the maquiladora sectors and created a sectoral promotion program to protect the duty-free status of maquiladora imports and thus allowed the maquiladora program to continue to use non-NAFTA ”
• Foreign direct investment, processing trade, and the sophistication of China's exports (2009, neutral): “Branstetter and Lardy (2006, p. 38) pointed out that “China is able to export huge quantities of electronic and information technology products only because it imports most of the high value-added parts and components that go into these goods.” Using production data rather than export data, Van Assc”