Menzie Chinn over at Econbrowser attended the NBER's recent "
Conference on China’s Growing Role in World Trade," where he too presented a paper. Dr. Chinn summarizes a couple of these papers in a
recent post, and I have the entire list reproduced below. The papers are a good mix of economics and political economy papers. If you're more of the IPE sort, have a gander at the Session 3 papers on China's WTO accession and use of the WTO's legal mechanisms, its textile trade pre- and post-Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA), its agricultural policy in recent times, and its inverse observed correlation between trade and pollution intensity. You read the latter right--the authors of the paper find that greater trade volume has lessened pollution
intensity in China--which is of course different from saying that pollution has decreased in China. A possible quibble is the study's almost exclusive reliance on Chinese government statistics and the qualifiers that entails. Still, it's intriguing and well worth a read--just like the other papers. Enjoy!
Session 1: International Trade
The Rising Sophistication of China’s Exports: Assessing the Roles of Processing Trade, Foreign Invested Firms, Human Capital and Government Policies
ZHI WANG, International Trade Commission; SHANG-JIN WEI, IMF and NBER
An Anatomy of China’s Export Growth
MARY AMITI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; CAROLINE FREUND, IMF
China's Local Comparative Advantage
HAIYAN DENG, The Conference Board; JAMES HARRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries
GORDON HANSON, UC-San Diego and NBER; RAYMOND ROBERTSON, Macalester College
Session 2: Macroeconomic Issues
China’s Exports and Employment
ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC-Davis and NBER; CHANG HONG, IMF
Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices
CHRISTIAN BRODA, University of Chicago and NBER; DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER
China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate
YIN-WONG CHEUNG, UC-Santa Cruz; MENZIE CHINN, University of Wisconsin and NBER; EIJI FUJII, University of Tsukuba
Session 3: China’s WTO Entry
China’s WTO Entry: Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement
CHAD BOWN, Brandeis University
China’s Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC)
IRENE BRAMBILLA and PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER; AMIT KHANDELWAL, Yale University
Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
JIKUN HUANG and YU LIU, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; WILL MARTIN, World Bank; SCOTT ROZELLE, Stanford University
Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China’s Environment
JUDITH DEAN, International Trade Commission; MARY LOVELY, Syracuse University
Session 4: Foreign Direct Investment (in China)
Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China
LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; C. FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University and NBER
Please Pass the Catch-up: The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports, 1997-2005
BRUCE BLONIGEN, University of Oregon and NBER; ALYSON MA, University of San Diego
China’s Outward FDI: Past and Future
LEONARD CHENG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; ZIHUI MA, Renmin University of China
