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19 - Business and Management Studies
Leeds Beckett University
Measurement of bilateral costs in international trade.
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.