Trade Protection Among Chinese Regions - Lingnan Economic Academic Series

Author: Li Jie
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This is a doctoral dissertation. The author attempts, through the research in this book, to achieve breakthroughs at both the theoretical analysis and empirical analysis levels. By combining economic models with econometric analysis, the book links the formation and development changes of trade protection barriers among Chinese regions with China's tax reform and trade liberalization process. It theoretically explores the impact of China's tax reform and trade liberalization process on the degree of interregional trade protection and empirically verifies the basic conclusions of the theoretical analysis. The innovations of this book are mainly reflected in three aspects: First, from the perspective of research methods, this study employs an integrated approach of mathematical economics to explore the formation mechanism of interregional trade protection barriers in China at both theoretical and empirical levels. Second, this study simultaneously considers the dual effects of administrative decentralization and foreign trade protection, distinguishing itself from existing literature that emphasizes only the single factor of administrative decentralization. Third, the book proposes two new viewpoints: China's entry into the WTO and the implementation of free trade policies towards other countries contribute to the elimination of interregional trade protection barriers; and from the perspective of the formation process of interregional trade protection barriers in China, the implementation of domestic administrative decentralization policies, especially tax reform, as well as the imposition of high trade protection barriers against foreign countries, are the reasons behind the formation of trade protection barriers among regions.