The global welfare impact of China: Trade integration and technological change


Autoria(s): di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

05/10/2013

Resumo

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a multi-country quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model.We simulate two alternative growth scenarios: a "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in whichChina's comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to theworld productivity frontier. Contrary to a well-known conjecture (Samuelson 2004),the large majority of countries experience significantly larger welfare gains whenChina's productivity growth is biased towards its comparative disadvantage sectors.This finding is driven by the inherently multilateral nature of world trade.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10230/21149

Idioma(s)

eng

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Palavras-Chave #Macroeconomics and International Economics #china #productivity growth #international trade
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