Previous studies have recognized that campaign contributions and lobbies affect trade policy. However, whether or not trade policy affects electoral outcome is far less discussed. This paper thus introduces a theoretical framework to explain how trade platform could affect the vote pattern....

Chinese firms faced an all-around trade liberalization process during the early 2000s: lower barriers from other countries on Chinese goods, and lower Chinese barriers on other countries' goods and inputs. Using novel firm-level tariff data for trading Chinese manufacturing firms, this paper...

1. Introduction / Yiping Huang -- 2. China's rapid growth and development : a historical and international context / Ligang Song -- 3. Double transition and China's export-led growth / Yang Yao -- 4. Understanding changing trends in Chinese wages / Cai Fang, Wang Meiyan and Du Yang -- 5. Climate...

Does entry into the export market enhance firms' productivity? In this paper, we estimate the instantaneous and long-run effects of exporting on the productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms during 2001 and 2007. We argue that pre-export R&D plays a crucial role in generating post-entry...

This paper proposes a new channel on the causal relation between trade liberalization and labor share changes. Since China’s accession to the WTO, a rise in market concentration and a decline in labor share have been observed in the manufacturing sectors in China. Using the Chinese...

In this study, we show that the unique Nash equilibrium of a political competition model between two parties in a Heckscher-Ohlin setting entails differentiated trade politics, with one party proposing a high tariff, and the other, a low one. The basic departure from a median voter model is the...

This paper investigates a basic question about the international political economy why is international trade not free? To answer this question, we modified Grossman and Helpman (1994) by considering that interest lobbies make political contributions to both the incumbent government and the...