A unilateral trade reform generates two opposite effects : market access expansion and strengthening of competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Using detailed trade and firm-level data from France, we investigate how French firms; product scope and export sales changed after Chinese liberalization vis-à-vis Asian liberalization. Our findings suggest that lower Chinese imports tariffs account on average for 7 percent of the new products exported...
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2012/06/25
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94095
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2015/03/20
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Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : the pattern of French exporters
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unilateral trade liberalization