with Ronald B.Davies
With Rui Xie and Guohao Yang
Abstract: This paper highlights the importance of pollution via indirect export in both the measurement and policy evaluation. We develop a firm-level framework to account for the embodied pollution in Chinese direct exports. Our framework allows for measuring the pollution of indirect export, and shows that nearly 60% of total pollution from export could be missed if one only considers the pollution via direct exports. More importantly, we fing that there is a persistent reduction in China's aggregate export embodied emission intensity (EEI) overtime, nearly 90% of which is driven by reduction in pollution via indirect exports. Our framework also allows for examining whether or not a firm is sourcing cleaner inputs from its domestic suppliers with policy variation across different industries. We apply the indicator to study the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) deregulation in China on pollution and find that our new channel plays a non-negligible role.
With Lafang Wang, Rui Xie and Bin Su.
Applied Economics , 52(57), 6199-6214, 2020
Abstract: It is vital to calculate Chinese provinces’ exports in domestic and global value chains from the perspective of value-added to address the problem of double counting. In this study, we calculated the direct and indirect domestic value-added in exports of 30 Chinese provinces using cross-border and cross-regional input–output tables in 2007 and 2012. We analysed the drivers of export value-added based on structural decomposition analysis. The results show that there is a value-added spatial imbalance in trade development. The export value-added of eastern provinces is significantly higher than that of central and western provinces, but this imbalance is gradually improving. The domestic value chain is the main channel for each province to realize export value-added, and the province production channels account for the highest proportion in this chain. The export value-added through international production channels is relatively small but growing in importance. The structural analysis shows that the increase of Chinese provinces’ export value-added is mainly caused by an increase of export scale and the provincial multiplier effect, while the value-added ratio of Chinese provinces has the main restraining effect. The spillover effect from industrial cooperation between provinces and other economies also increases the domestic value-added of exports.
With Lafang Wang and Jiabai Ye.
The Singapore Economic Review, 1-34, 2021
Abstract: This study uses world input–output (IO) data from 1995 to 2014 to investigate the influence of economic ties on employment in the United States and China. We conclude that the job spillover in China mainly increase the number of jobs employed by the manufacturing industry and the service industry in US, especially the employment of medium- and high-skilled labors accounting for more than 90%. In the meantime, the job spillover effect in the US to China is increasing constantly, especially to the employment of low- and medium-skilled labors in manufacturing and service industries, which tend to be further enhanced. However, the main factors of employment changes on both sides that are from the changes of industrial structure, rather than the impact of foreign products. The most important thing is that the production between China and the United States doesn’t reduce the number of each other’s employment, but optimizes the employment structure of each other, forming a “win–win” situation.
With Rui Xie and Niu Meng.
Chinese Journal of Management Science (Chinese Journal)