Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2018

Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China

Loren BRANDT, Gueorgui KAMBOUROV, Kjetil STORESLETTEN
The non-state manufacturing sector has been the engine of China’s economic transformation. Up through the mid-1990s, the sector exhibited large regional differences; subsequently we observe rapid convergence in terms of new firm start-up rates, productivity, and wages. To analyze the drivers of th...
Keywords: Chinese economic growth, SOEs, firm entry, entry wedges, capital wedges, output wedges, SOE reform
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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2018

Spatial Misallocation Across Chinese Firms

Yang TANG, Lin MA, Xiaolu LI
We document the spatial variations of firm-level frictions across cities in China and quantify their macroeconomic implications. Larger and centrally-located cities are less distorted in both the output and the factor market. The firm-level frictions lower the aggregate income by 10.5 percent in 200...
Keywords: Misallocation, regional trade, economic geography, welfare gain
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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2018

Interest-Rate Liberalization and Capital Misallocations

Zheng LIU, Pengfei WANG, Zhiwei XU
We study the consequences of interest rate liberalization in a two-sector general equilibrium model of China. The model captures a key feature of China's distorted financial system: state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have greater incentive to expand production and easier access to credit than private fi...
Keywords: interest-rate liberalization, state-owned enterprises
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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

Does Foreign Direct Investment Lead to Industrial Agglomeration?

Wen-Tai HSU, Yi LU, Xuan LUO, Lianming ZHU
This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on industrial agglomeration. Using the differential effects of FDI deregulation in 2002 in China on different industries, and using the Ellison-Glaeser index as the measure of industrial agglomeration, we find that FDI actually affects...
Keywords: industrial agglomeration, Ellison-Glaeser index, pro-competitive effect
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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

Cultural Preferences in International Trade: Evidence from the Globalization of Korean Pop Culture

Pao-Li CHANG, Iona Hyojung LEE
Korean pop culture (soap operas and K-pop music) has grown immensely popular across the globe over the past 15 years. This paper analyzes its impacts on international trade. We compile cross-country panel data on South Korea’s TV show exports to 136 countries for the period 2001– 2014. These dat...
Keywords: Korean Wave, trade, FDI, Gravity Equation, Cultural Preferences
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