WTO accession: structural changes to China's exports.

WTO accession: structural changes to China's exports.

China’s WTO accession has generated much debate on its influence on her exports. This paper shows empirically that WTO has not only affect China’s exports positively, but has also made significant changes to the structure of the export. The main reasons include that her admission into WTO has decrea...

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Main Authors: Cheong, Chu Lei., Ong, Xun Ning.
Other Authors: Chen, Kang
Format: Final Year Project
Published: 2008
Subjects:
DRNTU::Business::International business::Export
DRNTU::Business::International business::International competition
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/2161
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
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Summary:China’s WTO accession has generated much debate on its influence on her exports. This paper shows empirically that WTO has not only affect China’s exports positively, but has also made significant changes to the structure of the export. The main reasons include that her admission into WTO has decreased the trade barrier with other countries and increased market access. By estimating export equations of significant periods from 1994Q4 to 2007Q1 using OLS, we have found that income elasticities processed exports have risen while the price elasticities has mixed results for processed and ordinary exports.

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