Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese textile exports to the U.S
| Autor: | Zheng Wang, Richard Upward, Daniel M. Bernhofen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Textile industry Textile Monetary economics MFA Chinese exports US textile Accounting 0502 economics and business Economics Market price 050207 economics 050205 econometrics Commercial policy US Chinese exports textile business.industry 05 social sciences Causal effect Shock (economics) Economy Homogeneous Scale (social sciences) Political Science and International Relations MFA business Finance |
| ISSN: | 0378-5920 1467-9701 |
| Popis: | The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. The elimination of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 provides an unusual opportunity to examine the effects of a trade policy shock on export prices and firm behaviour. It was massive in scale, discrete in timing and exogenous to firms and consumers in the textile industry. Since the MFA quota removal did not affect all textile products at the same time, we are able to use a difference-in-difference approach to estimate the causal effects of the MFA. Using transaction-level data from the Chinese Customs Trade Statistics over the period 2000-2006, we find that the MFA removal reduced average export prices by about 25%. This fall was mainly caused by a combination of the entry of new low-price exporters and new low-price products, rather than a fall in prices of existing firm-product combinations. We also find that price reductions are twice as large for heterogeneous than for homogeneous products. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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