How do reductions in input trade costs affect firm's sales decision between domestic and foreign markets? By using Chinese firm-level production data and transaction-level trade data during 2000-2006 to construct firm-specific input trade costs, we find rich evidence that a reduction in input...

Chapter 1. Processing Trade, Trade Liberalisation, and Opening Up: China’s Miracle of International Trade -- Chapter 2. Import, Firm Productivity, and Product Complexity -- Chapter 3. Trade Liberalization, Product Complexity, and Productivity Improvement: Evidence from Chinese Firms. - Chapter...

"With the expansion of globalization, international trade has played an increasingly significant role, especially for developing countries. As the largest developing country, China has made a lot of efforts to integrate to the global market since its Open and Reform Policy in 1978 and become the...

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of one-sided tariff cuts on firms' export product scope. The theoretical model explicitly incorporates cost of management in addition to the commonly used production cost. Firms are heterogeneous in terms of managerial...