Contractual versus non-contractual trade
Subtitle: the role of institutions in China
By: Robert C. Feenstra ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17728; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17728.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Recent research has demonstrated the importance of institutional quality at the country level for both the volume of trade and the ability to trade in differentiated goods that rely on contract enforcement.  This paper takes advantage of cross-provincial variation in institutional quality in China, and export data that distinguishes between foreign and domestic exporters and processing versus ordinary trade, to show that institutional quality is a significant factor in determining Chinese provincial export patterns.  Institutions matter more for processing trade, and more for foreign firms, just as we would expect from a greater reliance on contracts in these cases"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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