Three Essays on the Chinese Economy

This dissertation comprises three essays. In the first two chapters, I examine the performance of Chinese firms in the context of trade liberalization: one chapter looks at the quality of China's exports and the other investigates the productivity impact of China's tariff reduction. In the...

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Main Author: Wang, Luhang
Other Authors: Brandt, Loren
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35193
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Summary:This dissertation comprises three essays. In the first two chapters, I examine the performance of Chinese firms in the context of trade liberalization: one chapter looks at the quality of China's exports and the other investigates the productivity impact of China's tariff reduction. In the third chapter, I study the change induced by a tax reform in the institutional incentive structure faced by Chinese village leaders.