Output details
19 - Business and Management Studies
Leeds Beckett University
Article title
Measurement of bilateral costs in international trade.
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
Finance and Trade Economics
Article number
-
Volume number
1
Issue number
5
First page of article
71
ISSN of journal
1002-8102
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
3
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Using panel data and an extended Gravity Model, this paper investigated the bilateral costs of international trade between China and 28 trading partners from 1992 to 2007 and the relative contributions of manufactured and capital and technology intensive goods to export growth. Results indicate (1) a declining trend in Chinese trade costs in the period and further decline potential; (2) labour intensive output growth strongly increases export flows; (3) technology sophisticated goods contribute more to export growth than low technology manufactures. These findings are useful for Chinese policy makers in setting up policies relating to trading products and partners.
