China's growing role in World Trade: NBER conference

Excellent NBER conference on China's growing role in world trade.

Papers are listed below. For links to each paper see HERE. [IPE Zone].

Session 1: International Trade

The Rising Sophistication of China’s Exports: Assessing the Roles of Processing Trade, Foreign Invested Firms, Human Capital and Government Policies
ZHI WANG, International Trade Commission; SHANG-JIN WEI, IMF and NBER

An Anatomy of China’s Export Growth
MARY AMITI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; CAROLINE FREUND, IMF

China's Local Comparative Advantage
HAIYAN DENG, The Conference Board; JAMES HARRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries
GORDON HANSON, UC-San Diego and NBER; RAYMOND ROBERTSON, Macalester College

Session 2: Macroeconomic Issues

China’s Exports and Employment
ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC-Davis and NBER; CHANG HONG, IMF

Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices
CHRISTIAN BRODA, University of Chicago and NBER; DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER

China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate
YIN-WONG CHEUNG, UC-Santa Cruz; MENZIE CHINN, University of Wisconsin and NBER; EIJI FUJII, University of Tsukuba

Session 3: China’s WTO Entry

China’s WTO Entry: Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement
CHAD BOWN, Brandeis University

China’s Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC)
IRENE BRAMBILLA and PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER; AMIT KHANDELWAL, Yale University

Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
JIKUN HUANG and YU LIU, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; WILL MARTIN, World Bank; SCOTT ROZELLE, Stanford University

Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China’s Environment
JUDITH DEAN, International Trade Commission; MARY LOVELY, Syracuse University

Session 4: Foreign Direct Investment (in China)

Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China
LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; C. FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University and NBER

Please Pass the Catch-up: The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports, 1997-2005
BRUCE BLONIGEN, University of Oregon and NBER; ALYSON MA, University of San Diego

China’s Outward FDI: Past and Future
LEONARD CHENG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; ZIHUI MA, Renmin University of China