TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blonigen, Bruce
AU  - Ma, Alyson
TI  - Please Pass the Catch-up The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13376
PY  - 2007
Y2  - September 2007
DO  - 10.3386/w13376
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13376
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13376.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Bruce Blonigen
Department of Economics
1285 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1285
Tel: 541/346-4680
Fax: 541/346-1243
E-Mail: bruceb@uoregon.edu

Alyson Ma
University of San Diego
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, California 92110-2492
Tel: 619-260-2383
Fax: 619-260-4891
E-Mail: maa@sandiego.edu
M1  - published as Bruce A. Blonigen, Alyson C. Ma. "Please Pass the Catch-Up: The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports," in Robert C. Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei, editors, "China's Growing Role in World Trade" University of Chicago Press (2010)

M3  - presented at "China and World Trade Conference", August 3-4, 2007
AB  - Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) account for well over half of all Chinese exports and this share continues to grow.  While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important objective of the Chinese government is to ultimately obtain foreign technologies and develop their own technological capabilities domestically.  This paper uses detailed data on Chinese exports by sector and type of enterprise to examine the extent to which domestic enterprises are "keeping up" or even "catching up" to FIEs in the volume, composition and quality of their exports.  We also use a newly-created dataset on Chinese policies encouraging or restricting FIEs across sectors to examine the extent to which such policies can affect the evolving composition of Chinese exports.
ER  -