Trade protection between regions in China

Author: Li Jie
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This is a doctoral dissertation. The author attempts to achieve breakthroughs in both theoretical and empirical analysis through the research presented in this book. By combining economic models with econometric analysis, the book links the formation and evolution of trade protection barriers among Chinese regions to China's tax reform and trade liberalization process. It theoretically explores the impact of China's tax reform and trade liberalization on the level of regional trade protection and empirically verifies the basic conclusions of the theoretical analysis. The innovations of this book are primarily reflected in three aspects: First, from the perspective of research methodology, this study employs a combined approach of mathematical economics to explore the formation mechanism of regional 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 perspectives: China's entry into the WTO and the implementation of free trade policies abroad help eliminate regional trade protection barriers; and from the perspective of the formation process of regional trade protection barriers in China, the implementation of domestic administrative decentralization policies, particularly tax reform, as well as the imposition of high trade protection measures abroad, are the reasons behind the formation of trade protection barriers among regions.