China's Gains from WTO Accession: Imports versus Exports

Ting-Wei Lai, Raymond Riezman and Ping Wang

No 5668, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We examine the gains from Chinese accession to the WTO. Using Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodríguez-Clare (2012) we provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then evaluate how the increased openness caused by China’s accession to the WTO effects the importing and exporting sectors. We find surprisingly, that the gains to the import sector are larger than the gains to the export sector. Moreover, the size and the dynamic pattern of such gains are different across sectors.

Keywords: gains from trade; import substitution; export promotion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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