In the 2000s, China's WTO entry constituted a major trade shock. In this paper, we analyze its eff ects on trade and … added trade for 40 countries and the years 1995-2009 from the World Input-Output database. With WIOD and tariff data, we … estimate the gravity model's key parameters. The simulation then hypothetically sets tari s w.r.t. China back to their pre …

, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … and for about 7% of the decline in this figure on the world level as observed between 2000 and 2007. Furthermore, our …

rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …

% for the EU, by .5% for the United States, and by -.02% for the rest of the world relative to the status quo. However …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was a massive boostfor the multilateral trading system …. We present descriptive evidence on the trade effects of China's WTO accession. Moreover, we combine the most recent … approaches from the gravity literature of international trade to provide a causal analysis of the effects of China's WTO …