Economic Transformation and Trade Flows in China: A Theoretical Examination and Empirical Study Based on Institutional and Technological Factors

Author: Gu Kejian
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The first part of this book comprehensively summarizes existing quantitative research methods on trade flows and focuses on China's economic transformation process, exploring the variable design of an extended gravity model for trade flow research. Based on China's trade flow practices, it analyzes the institutional constraints on export supply behavior from multiple perspectives, including competition policy, export sector structure, and foreign direct investment. To adapt to new trends in globalization and China's open economy practices, the book implements a model synthesis with endogenous trade policies in China, aiming to construct a supply equation for China's trade flows and a decision-making support system. The second part of the book establishes a new relationship between technology and trade based on trade flow practices, describing the micro significance of technology diffusion research and its application in trade flow analysis. It analyzes the performance distribution of technology diffusion carried by trade flows in influencing regional productivity changes in China. It separately examines the exogenous impact of the new technological revolution on trade flows and the endogenous influence of trade-related institutional frameworks and division-of-labor patterns on technology diffusion. It explores the preliminary trajectory of technology diffusion advancing the evolution of China's foreign trade development model and attempts to establish theories and methods for applying the new relationship between technology and trade in China's trade flow research.