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Tracing Value Added in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment
Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin; Yu, Xinding; Zhu, Kunfu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a unified framework to trace value added along global supply chains in the presence of foreign direct investment by decomposing either GDP based on forward linkages or final production based on backward linkages. The new framework accounts for the presence of foreign invested...
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FinTech as a Financial Liberator
Buchak, Greg; Hu, Jiayin; Wei, Shang-jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
financial repression in China through the introduction of a money market fund with deposit-like features available through an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696357
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Currency Carry Trade by Trucks : The Curious Case of China's Massive Imports from Itself
Liu, Xuepeng; Tang, Heiwai; Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
With capital controls, the standard financial market transactions needed for currency carry trade are hard to implement. Using detailed trade data reported by both the mainland Chinese and Hong Kong's governments, we present evidence that indirect currency carry trade likely takes place via...
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Land Security and Mobility Frictions
Adamopoulos, Tasso; Brandt, Loren; Chen, Chaoran; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … covering rural land in China during the period …
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Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing
Brandt, Loren - 2009
We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity estimates for China's manufacturing …
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Deadly Discrimination : Implications of "Missing Girls" for Workplace Safety
Tan, Zhibo; Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
of data sets and taking advantage of large regional and temporal variations in sex ratios in China, we demonstrate that …
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Misallocation, Selection and Productivity : A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China
Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2017
We use household-level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the extent and consequences of … to land institutions in rural China that disproportionately constrain the more productive farmers. These frictions reduce … aggregate agricultural productivity in China by affecting two key margins: (1) the allocation of resources across farmers …
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