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Decomposing China's export growth into extensive margin, export / Gao, Yue; Whalley, John; Ren, Yonglei

Whalley, John	Journal Article
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2014.

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This paper decomposes the growth of China's export into three parts: growth in extensive margin, increased quantity and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China's export data at the HS-6 digit level to analyze the characteristics of China's export growth. China's export growth depends more and more on price increases, less and less on quantity expansion. Compared with the rest of world, China's export price is in the process of improving, not at an increasing speed but at a declining pace. China's export performance is better than the rest of the world after the financial crisis and in 2008-2010. This reflects a strategy of lowering price and promoting sales in 2009 when facing a slump in export markets; and resuming price increases and increasing sales moderately in reaction to improving export conditions in 2010.

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International Trade ; China ; Economic Growth ; Financial Crisis ; Extensive Margin ; Empirical Analyses ;
Export Growth ; Export Market ; Export Quality ; Quantity Effects

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Legal environment, contract intensity, and export quality / Li, Junqing

Li, Junqing	Journal Article
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In this paper, we construct a simple game-theoretic model to illustrate that improvement in the legal environment can improve the quality of final products by improving the quality of intermediate products, especially in industries with higher contract intensity. Using Chinese Customs Database and Industrial Enterprise Database from 2000 to 2006, we measure the export quality at the firm-product-country level and examine the effect of the legal environment on the export quality. Our empirical study shows that the improvement in the legal environment can raise export quality, especially at firms with higher contract intensity. Further studies show that the legal environment and contract intensity affect the import decision of firms and thus have a significant impact on product quality of export firms.

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Legal Environment ; Export Quality ; Contract Intensity

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