Emission reduction and value‐added export nexus at firm level

Deng, Yuping; Wu, Yanrui; Xu, Helian

doi:10.1111/twec.13352

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“…Such detailed information at this level of disaggregation is crucial for the purpose of this research. Some recently published papers also use this data for a similar period [35][36][37][38]). Furthermore, we also hypothesise that the goods traded of different categories are affected differently by Chinese OFDI; therefore, we also need to further divide our dataset into four categories of goods based on the BEC standards.…”

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Understanding China’s Economic Engagement in Africa: An Exploration of the FDI-Trade Nexus

2022

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The rapid rise of China on the global stage has promoted a widely held concern about the country’s political intention behind its expanding overseas economic activities. This paper attempts to shed new light on this old question: Is the abundance of natural resources in Africa the primary motivation for Chinese economic engagement in the continent? To this end, we investigate the nexus of China’s direct investment in 54 African countries and its international trade with the region between 2003 and 2014 to estimate how and to which extent Chinese investment affects its trade with the continent. This empirical task is facilitated using a transaction-level trade database from Chinese customs, which allows us to trace the trade records by product, destination, and exporting firm. Our empirical results support the trade-promoting effect of China’s foreign direct investment in the region, and this effect is found to be more significant for China’s exports of consumption and processed goods to the continent than for China’s imports of primary goods from this same region. Furthermore, we do not find systematic evidence that these investment activities lead to more primary goods being imported by Chinese state-owned enterprises. While these findings do not rule out the existence of resource-seeking motivation, they cast doubt on that being a primary driving force behind Chinese investment in Africa.

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Understanding China’s Economic Engagement in Africa: An Exploration of the FDI-Trade Nexus

2022

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“…To fill this gap, this study aims to investigate the impact of import competition on the sustainable development of GVCs. Deng et al (2023) cite two main methods to promote such development: innovation and increasing domestic intermediates. From the perspective of a firm's innovation and production behavior, we further reveal the impact mechanisms.…”

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Import competition and sustainable development of global value chains: Evidence from China

Feng,

Tang

2023

Sustainable Development

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As the largest developing country and the second largest importer, China provides meaningful research on import competition and the global value chain (GVC). This article uses theoretical models and empirical tests to explore whether and how import competition affects the sustainable development of Chinese firms' GVCs. Moreover, we utilize China's entry into the WTO as a quasi‐natural experiment for import competition to further test the robustness of our findings. Ultimately, we find that import competition reduces the sustainable development of GVCs by decreasing the quality of imported intermediate inputs, which inhibits technology spillover, and by increasing the substitution of foreign inputs for domestic materials. Heterogeneous analyses show that import competition negatively affects ordinary trade and mixed trade firms while having no significant impact on processing trade firms. Moreover, this negative effect is especially significant for firms in eastern and central regions.

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Emission reduction and value‐added export nexus at firm level

Cited by 2 publications

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Understanding China’s Economic Engagement in Africa: An Exploration of the FDI-Trade Nexus

Understanding China’s Economic Engagement in Africa: An Exploration of the FDI-Trade Nexus

Import competition and sustainable development of global value chains: Evidence from China

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