Trading Partners, Traded Products and Firm Performances of China's ExporterImporters: Does Processing Trade Make a Difference?

Wang, Zheng; Yu, Zhihong

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“…As described in Table , After matching the product‐level trade data and firm‐level production data, the remaining observations account for nearly 15 percent of the original firm‐level production dataset yearly, and about 25 percent of the original product‐level trade dataset, and more than half in terms of export value. By way of comparison, our matching success rate is highly comparable to that in other studies that use the same datasets, such as Wang and Yu (), Ge et al . () and Yu ().…”

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“…As described in Table 1, After matching the product-level trade data and firm-level production data, the remaining observations account for nearly 15 percent of the original firm-level production dataset yearly, and about 25 percent of the original product-level trade dataset, and more than half in terms of export value. By way of comparison, our matching success rate is highly comparable to that in other studies that use the same datasets, such as Wang and Yu (2012), Ge et al (2011) andYu (2014). In the baseline estimation, we only use matched firms appearing each year, that is exporting every year (around 5,404 firms), but the results are not significantly changed after including the incidental exporters, which is done in our robustness check.…”

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Learning from exporting in China

Lin

Wang

2016

Econ Transit

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Do exports increase the firm's productivity causally? Focusing on the matched information of highly disaggregated transaction and firm-level data from 2000 to 2006 in China, we construct a new measure of firm-specific demand shock as an instrument for firm exports, based on the GDP growth rate of destination countries. We find that a one percentage point expansion in exports raises firm total factor productivity (estimated by the Olley-Pakes method) by approximately 0.224 percentage points on average. Moreover, we find that exports to highincome countries, more processing exports and scope expansion about variety contribute to the learning effect.

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Learning from exporting in China

Lin

Wang

2016

Econ Transit

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“…We check the consistency of our matches using phone numbers and location-specific information. 15 Our matching algorithm and results are very similar to those in Manova and Yu (2011) and Wang and Yu (2012) and capture approximately two-thirds of the exporters in the manufacturing data set. We conduct a number of tests to study the composition of exports across products and firms in both the matched sample and the firm-level data.…”

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Product churning, reallocation, and Chinese export growth

Rodrigue

Tan

et al. 2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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This paper quantifies the separate contribution of idiosyncratic productivity and demand growth on aggregate Chinese exports. We develop firm, product, market and year-specific measures of productivity and demand. We use these measures to document a number of novel findings that distinguish the growth of Chinese exports. First, we document that changes in demand explain nearly 82 percent of aggregate export growth, while only 18 percent of export growth is determined by productivity growth. Second, our results highlight two mechanisms which contribute significantly to aggregate export growth: the rapid reallocation of market shares towards products with growing demand, and high rates of product exit among low demand products. Investigating the mechanisms underlying these results we find that new exporters suffer demand shocks which are 66 percent smaller than those observed for incumbent producers in the same product market. By comparison, we find that there is only an 8 percent difference on average between the productivity of new and incumbent exporters. Repeating our exercise with revenue productivity reveals much smaller differences. This is largely attributed to differential movements in prices and marginal costs.

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“…Hence, we merge two databases using 'firm name' and year. The merged dataset comprises 80,375 unique manufacturing export firms, similar in number to that used by Wang and Yu (2012). Note, the CASIF records if the firm exports, and we can match as high as 55% of these to CCTS; but there is a concern that the resulting matched records may be biased towards larger firms, those in certain industries, or certain (eastern seaboard) provinces.…”

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Exports and firm survival: do trade regime and productivity matter?

Dai

Harris

Lü

et al. 2015

Applied Economics Letters

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Meihong Dai Richard Harris Yuduo Lu Haiyang Liu AbstractNew 'new trade theory' suggests that exporters with higher productivity face lower exit risks. In this paper, we use firm-level data from China to examine whether the type of exporting engaged in matters. We find that all types of exporters have higher survival probabilities in comparison with non-exporters; however, the survival probability of exporters engaged in processing trade is less positively affected by productivity.

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Trading Partners, Traded Products and Firm Performances of China's ExporterImporters: Does Processing Trade Make a Difference?

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Learning from exporting in China

Learning from exporting in China

Product churning, reallocation, and Chinese export growth

Exports and firm survival: do trade regime and productivity matter?

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