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Background In principle, trade and investment agreements are meant to boost economic growth. However, the removal of trade barriers and the provision of investment incentives to attract foreign direct investments may facilitate increased trade in and/or more efficient production of commodities considered harmful to health such as tobacco. We analyze existing evidence on trade and investment liberalization...
Credit rationing is an important manifestation in the monetary policy transmission. This paper focuses on the analysis of the transmission effect of China's international trade credit on the monetary policy in the foreign trade domain, and with empirical evidences we come to the conclusion that the international trade credit assets is the Granger cause of export, and still further that the volume...
Foreign investment has become an integral part of our country's economic development. This paper does factor analysis on each index about foreign investment. The result shows that Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing are ahead of the overall development level in China from the aspect of economic power. The infrastructures are relatively sound and can provide the necessary services for foreign investment...
The basic picture and framework of the transnational interregional Input-Output (I-O) table cross countries is introduced, and conventional impact analyses will be conducted to capture cross-border transactions and inter-linkages, from one region to another region, and vice versa. Also, the relationship between regional linkages and the import/export trades will be investigated. The I-O tables-received...
Since the 1980s, South Asian countries have been implementing financial market deregulation policies continuously. Although the process of deregulations has been slow, many countries in the region are heading toward a more integrated market despite current global turmoil. Financial market integration in South Asia could have synchronised economic activities of the countries in the region due to the...
This article mainly analyzes the tremendous impact of different open level to the outside world of a country on technological progress according to a country different open situation, points out the promoting functions of international trade to technological progress, gets the indication that If a country can organically unify the endogenous technology progress and the exogenous technology progress,...
There is close relationship between foreign trade and economy growth. China's export trade and import trade develop rapidly and foreign direct investment is becoming more and more since China's reform and opening up which can make impact on China's real economy development. The impact mechanism of foreign trade on real economy in China has been analyzed by using yearly data from 1982 to 2009 based...
The literature of financial crisis and China Foreign Trade-based logistics companies' (CFTLCs) strategic transformation was reviewed, the importance of the capability factors for CFTLCs was put forward. Then, a survey was conducted with Likert scale method, and the data was analyzed by SPSS software. Factor analysis results show that five crucial factors which affect strategic transformation of CFTLCs...
Since the opening up reform, the foreign trade of China has developed rapidly. The development of foreign trade has made China's economy more dependent on foreign markets. Now with the rapid expansion of foreign trade and industrialization and the quick pace of industrial products, China's environmental problems become very prominent. The international community, governments and people all over the...
This paper gives us an empirical study on the regional economic differences in Anhui Province by fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model. The deta include 17 cities in Anhui Province in 2008 per capita GDP, per capita revenues, per capita foreign trade, per capita domestic trade, ratio of primary industry output value, ratio of secondary industry output value, ratio of tertiary industry output value,...
The global financial crisis, triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage in 2007, has seriously affected the development of China's economy, making a large number of Chinese export-oriented enterprises faced with serious problems, such as profit decline, layoffs and even bankruptcy. This paper is set under the background of this global financial crisis and aiming at extracting implicit risk factors of...
Traditional macroeconomic models to explain the exchange rate fluctuations has poor performance, or even worse than random walk. In this paper, from the perspective of microstructure of the foreign exchange market, we made a detailed analysis of the order flow which is the core variable of the foreign exchange rate determination. We employ the approaches of cointegration and error correction model...
International market power is the micro basis for carrying out Strategic Trade Policy (STP). Whether STP should be applied to China's electronics and information industry depends on its market power for different industry subdivision in different international markets. The paper develops the Hall model, analyzes the specific market power of industries of HS85, HS90 and HS8471 in the U.S., Japan and...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the environmental and economic effects of trade liberalization, we use a Computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to examine the impact of a trade bloc consisting of the US and China. We find some macro-economic variables such as gross domestic product (GDP), disposable income, import, export, production and consumption increases for two members of the trade...
In open economy, development of foreign trade greatly impacts on GDP growth. Adapting simple regression for researching the relationship between foreign trade including total export and total import and GDP growth of Guangxi province, with the collected 30-year statistical data from 1978 to 2008. The result indicates that foreign trade has contributed a lot to the GDP growth of foreign trade and still...
International pressure to revalue RMB stems in part from the expectation that rapid economic growth should be associated with a real exchange rate appreciation. This hinges on the "Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis" under which economic growth, stemming from improvements in traded sector productivity, causes non-traded prices to rise.RMB real exchange rate has shown no long run tendency to appreciate...
In April 2007, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao officially visited South Korea and made the negotiation of establishing free trade area (FTA) as a priority. Establishing FTA and realizing the trade' liberalization and integration is an important measure to further enhance the bilateral trade relation between China and South Korea. This thesis started from the status of Sino-South Korea trade, studied reasons...
Over the recent period, many emerging market economies and commodity-exporting nations are accumulating unprecedented amounts of foreign exchange reserves. The management of these foreign reserves has led to the emergence of sovereign wealth fund. Our particular focus will be on exploring whether the investment activities of these sovereign wealth funds were conducive or inimical to financial stability...
China is a great power of forest product producing, processing, consumption and the import and export country in the world. The total volume of the import and export of forest product ranks second in the world, which is next to the United States. The main target market of China's forest product focuses on the harder hit area of financial crisis such as the Europe and the United States. The depression...
International capital reversals lead to many financial crises in emerging markets from 1970 to 2007. In this paper we present descriptive statistics on capital account reversals and financial crises and analyze the determinants of crises and measure their marginal effects on different economic structure. Furthermore, we consider the influence of export to GDP, ratio of services industry and economic...
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