May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
3h 33m
English
This chapter examines the hypothesis that VS plays an important role in China’s trade surplus development. China’s standard statistics of trade surplus are amplified and sustainable due to VS using the I/O table of China over the period 2000–2007. We find evidence that China’s trade surplus has been amplified. Standard trade statistics give a wrong impression of the reality of export value-added per sector using the I/O table (2000/2002/2007) in China/Jiangsu/Guangdong.
Key words
Vertical specialization
Trade surplus
I/O table
China
Globalization has altered world production and consumption networks. ...
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