Introduction to the special issue on China

• Date: 01 September 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12414
• Published date: 01 September 2019

Rev Int Econ. 2019;27:1001. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/roie

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Received: 1 May 2019

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Accepted: 1 May 2019

DOI: 10.1111/roie.12414

EDITORIAL

Introduction to the special issue on China

Peter H. Egger

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Guangzhong Li

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Jie Li

This issue is devoted to the publication of a selected set of papers that had been presented at a work-

shop entitled “China and the Global Economy”, held at the Institute of Industrial Economics at Jinan

University at Guangzhou in November 2018. The papers collected in this issue address a wide range

of topics related to regional and international economic issues regarding the Chinese economy.

The first paper, co‐authored by Tian and Yu addresses the importance of trade liberalization as

channeled through trade of inputs and the global organization of value chains. The second paper by

Chao, Mong, Nguyen, and Yu focuses on the importance of trade liberalization for firm entry and

wage inequality in developing or transition countries such as China. The third paper by Ding, Lu, and

Zheng analyzes the impact of trade openness on the cost structure of firms in 25 countries including

China. The fourth and fifth papers consider some form of factor mobility: paper four by Zhu, Jia, and

Wu addresses foreign direct investment and asks the question of how it is affected by bankruptcy costs

and policy uncertainty, and paper five by Chen, Li, and Li considers labor mobility within China as

induced by the country's exports by focusing on the consequences for the children of migrant workers.

The sixth paper by Li, Wang, Dong, and Yu is devoted to the question of how the corporate social

responsibility of firms affects their product differentiation and their global competition. The seventh

paper by Huang and Song puts internet use as a driver of export upgrading to the fore. The last paper

in this issue by Li, Wang, and Zhao focuses on exchange rate exposure and its effect on firm value

using Chinese stock market data.