The Role of the People’s Republic of China in International Fragmentation and Production Networks: An Empirical Investigation

Hyun-Hoon Lee, Donghyun Park and Jing Wang ()
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Jing Wang: Department of International Trade, Postal: Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 200-701,, Republic of Korea

No 87, Working Papers on Regional Economic Integration from Asian Development Bank

Abstract: Despite the central role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in global parts and components trade, most previous studies on the PRC’s parts and components trade have been limited to a particular trade partner or some specific industries. The central objective of this paper is to provide a more complete description of the PRC’s parts and components trade. To do so, we systematically separate total trade flows into parts and components and final goods, and give a description of the pattern of parts and components trade for the period 1992–2009. We then estimate a gravity model to examine the determinants of the PRC’s trade in parts and components. We find that the share of parts and components trade in the PRC’s total trade has grown rapidly.

Keywords: People’s Republic of China; PRC; parts and components trade; fragmentation; production network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F21 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2011-09-01
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