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Measuring Vertical Specialization: the Case of China (with K C. Fung and Zhi Wang), Review of International Economics (2011)

The explosive growth of Chinese trade may be due to international production fragmentation, but few...

 

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Decomposing China–Japan–U.S. trade: Vertical specialization, ownership, and organizational form (with Mary E. Lovely and Jesse Mora), Journal of Asian Economics (2009)

We use the US International Trade Commission's uniquely detailed 1995–2007 Chinese Customs data to better...

 

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Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations? Evaluating the Evidence from China (with Mary E. Lovely and Hua Wang), Journal of Development Economics (2009)

At the center of the pollution haven debate is the claim that foreign investors from...

 

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Estimating the Price Effects of Non-Tariff Barriers (with Robert Feinberg, Jose Signoret, Rodney D. Ludema, and Michael Ferrantino), B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (2009)

As multilateral negotiations focus more on reductions and removal of non-tariff barriers (NTBs), the importance...

 

Contributions to Books

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Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation and China's Environment (with Mary E. Lovely), China's Growing Role in World Trade (2010)

In recent years, China has experienced both rapidly growing trade and serious environmental degradation. The...

 

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Quantifying the Value of US Tariff Preferences for Developing Countries (with John Wainio), Trade Preference Erosion: Measurement and Response (2009)

In recent debates, trade preference erosion has been viewed by some as damaging to developing...

 

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Trade growth, global production, and environmental degradation (with Mary E. Lovely), VOX (2008)
 

Working Papers

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Is Trade Preference Erosion Bad for Development?, USITC Office of Economics Working Papers (2006)

In much of the recent debate about trade preference erosion, opponents have stressed the impact...