An impact of economic integration through trade: on business cycles for 10 East Asian countries

Many recent studies about East Asian countries discussed “natural” economic integration through trade, but there are few rigorous empirical studies on how their economies were affected by the evolution of economic integration within the region. This paper investigates the effect of bilateral trade dependence on the co-movement of business cycles for 10 East Asian countries. We find that economic fluctuations tend to be more synchronized within the region as trade interdependence among them deepens. This finding suggests the necessity of cooperative efforts to prevent or adjust unfavorable future economic crisis in East Asia.     

Trade policy and specialization in developing countries

This paper examines the impact of trade policy on specialization patterns in ten Latin American countries over the period 1985–1998. These countries are natural case studies because in the last decades they implemented comprehensive trade liberalization programs, both generally and preferentially, starting from relatively high tariff protection levels. Our econometric results suggest that reducing own most favored nation tariffs is associated with increasing manufacturing production specialization. Furthermore, we find that preferential trade liberalization and differences in the degree of unilateral openness have resulted in increased dissimilarities in manufacturing production structures across countries. These results are robust across specialization measures and estimation methods.

河北省加工贸易现状及转型升级发展路径研究

基于在促进经济发展、吸纳社会就业、引进资本技术等多方面作用,加工贸易具有长期存在的坚实基础。河北省加工贸易发展较为滞后,现阶段,转变方式、转型升级成为加工贸易健康发展的主基调。本文即立足河北省加工贸易现状,分析了其发展阶段和特点,结合外部有利条件和不利挑战,提出了推动河北省加工贸易转型升级发展的可行路径。     

On the measurement of product quality in intra-industry trade: An empirical test for China

A relatively recent development in the intra-industry trade (IIT) literature is the measurement of the simultaneous import and export of quality-differentiated products, commonly known as vertical and horizontal IIT. A recent paper from Azhar and Elliott [Azhar, A. K. M. & Elliott, R. J. R. (2006), On the Measurement of Product Quality in Intra-Industry Trade, Review of World Economics, Vol 142 no 3, pp 476–495] analyses various approaches for disentangling vertical and horizontal IIT and suggests a complementary methodology. To investigate the robustness and sensitivity of the existing approaches we examine data on the nature of trade flows between China and its East Asian neighbours and show that in 2002 China tended to export low quality versions of its manufactured goods to Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.     

Market structure and the link between migration and trade

Many recent studies have looked at the impact of international migration on trade and found a significant effect. They posit that migration fosters trade by lowering costs or by means of a preference bias. However, to my knowledge, market structure has not as yet been considered. Using data from Switzerland, this paper empirically assesses the extent to which migration affects trade, taking goods differentiation into account. A monopolistic model with a multisector economy (Chaney in Am Econ Rev 98(41):1707–1721, 2008) is then empirically estimated. The findings show that market structure explains the different channels through which migration affects trade.

广东省服务贸易国际竞争力现状及影响因素研究

服务贸易发展对广东省经济建设意义重大。本文分析了广东省服务贸易发展现状、特点及其影响因素,并对如何提升广东省服务贸易国际竞争力提出了自己的对策建议。     

国际贸易与中国农村人力资源开发

过去20～30年间,中国沿着"东亚奇迹"的轨迹再次成为全球经济的重要角色。中国经济融入世界经济同时人力资本迅速积累,国际贸易通过提高收入以及促进城市化过程带给农村人口更好的接受教育机会。然而,教育财政投入偏低以及投入结构上的不合理使得农村人口接受教育的成本相对其收入仍然偏高;教育投入在地方和中央政府之间的分担现状又加剧了地区间农村人口教育的不平衡;户口制度以及各省份间教育考试制度的割裂增加了城市务工人员子女接受高质量教育的成本。简单的政策建议包括两个方面:第一,从政策方面完善教育经费和收入来源结构,加大中央财政对于农村尤其是落后地区农村义务教育的支持,保证义务教育在全国范围落实;第二,城市中教育减低乃至减少户籍歧视,同时通过政府补助增加务工人员参加培训教育的机会。     

Free trade and income redistribution in some developing and newly industrialized countries

A competitive general equilibrium model of production is specified and the long-run comparative static elasticities of changing prices on factor prices are examined in eight developing and newly industrialized countries. Unskilled labor in these developing countries stands to gain from a program of global free trade characterized by increased manufacturing exports and falling prices of imported business services, while capital owners and skilled labor lose. Results are contrasted with developed countries, the United States in particular, where unskilled labor will lose while capital and skilled labor enjoy gains with global free trade.     

浙江外贸企业运行现状调查及应对分析

外贸的稳定增长在浙江省的经济发展、产业发展、解决就业等问题上有很重要的作用,我们以外贸企业为研究及服务对象,通过企业走访、电话及网络调查等,收集了解了浙江外贸企业运行的一些信息,对浙江外贸企业运行的主要困难进行了总结,并提出了一些应对措施。     

创新边贸合作机制,推进与周边国家边境合作深入发展——以中、越边境贸易为例

我国有陆地边境省份的面积占全国的60%以上,边境贸易是陆地边境省份的区位优势。在W TO、CAFTA等机遇下,边境贸易受到了很大的影响。只有创新边境经贸合作机制才有利于边境贸易的升级发展。本文以条件最好的中、越边境贸易为例,提出了创新边境经贸合作的对策,以双经济特区的方式为切入点,双边共建和谐边境合作带,深入边境经贸合作,目标是要达到无障碍与双赢,以推动我国与周边国家的经贸合作迈上新水平,推进边境地区经济的可持续增长。     

金融危机下美国对华贸易救济发展态势及对策研究

中、美两国贸易量的扩大,导致贸易摩擦不断,金融危机背景下美国对华贸易救济措施影响了中国的对外贸易发展。本文通过美国对华贸易救济发展态势分析,深入探究其贸易救济动因及历史背景,并针对美国对华贸易救济提出对策建议。     

新疆服务贸易发展现状及对策分析

20世纪90年代以来,全球服务贸易发展迅速,事实表明服务贸易已成为经济发展多样化的重要推动力。本文分析了新疆服务贸易发展现状及存在的问题,提出了新疆发展服务贸易的对策思考。     

Research on impacts of international textile trade development on Chinese textile trade and countermeasure s

Under the international textile trade development condition, the author analyzes the international textile trade market and the situation of Chinese textile trade after China entry into WTO, reveals the influence of the world textile trade development on Chinese textile trade, and proposes a series     

经济全球化下国际贸易措施与投资措施的相关性研究

当今经济全球化的发展,使得国际贸易与国际投资更紧密地结合在一起,而国际贸易与国际投资之间的密切联系又导致贸易措施与投资措施之间的交叉影响,即贸易措施对投资或投资措施对贸易将发生越来越重要的作用。随着加入世贸后我国参与经济全球化程度的日益加深,以贸易与投资为主要内容的对外经贸合作获得了长足发展。我国应当顺应国际贸易与投资的发展趋势,有效地将贸易政策措施与投资政策措施结合起来,实现两者的良性互动。     

关于《CEPA》与香港对外贸易发展的研究

本文围绕《CEPA》为主题,详细描述了《CEPA》的签署历程、特点,并且对《CEPA》签署后香港对外贸易的发展进行了详尽的分析。最后针对《CEPA》尚存在的问题,提出了将来进一步的补充《CEPA》内容的提议,以求使内地与香港的经济、贸易合作关系更加紧密。     

Technological specialization in industrial countries: Patterns and dynamics

Technological Specialization in Industrial Countries: Patterns and Dynamics. — This paper employs distribution dynamics and patent data to study the empirical dynamics of technological specialization in industrial countries. Large countries spread innovation activities across a wider range of technologies, and their specialization level in a field displays lower probability to move around its initial level (country size effects). Mobility is high and asymmetric: it is difficult to improve specialization in very disadvantaged technologies, while high comparative advantages revert towards lower specialization levels. These findings undermine the theory of technological accumulation and path dependence, its implication of persistence in trade specialization patterns and the effectiveness of targeted industrial and technology policies.     

论黑龙江省对俄罗斯远东的经贸合作

俄罗斯近年来更加重视发挥其东部地区的优势,积极发展多领域的合作.我国尤其是黑龙江省应抓住机遇,积极开拓远东市场.进一步推动中俄边境贸易,必须加强政府宏观调控,拓宽境外合作领域.     

中、澳经贸:自由贸易协定的机遇和挑战

中、澳自由贸易协定谈判从2005年10月开始,迄今已经进行了9个回合。本文分析了中、澳双边经贸关系的现状,并探讨了自由贸易协定给中、澳经贸可能带来的机遇和挑战,并提出推动中、澳经贸关系、加速中、澳自由贸易区建设的一些建议。