Collaborative Research: Measurement and Modeling Changes in the Quality and Productivity of Chinese Exports

该奖项用于对国际贸易和制造业企业间竞争的实证研究。PI将结合两个现有的数据源，创建一个包含2000-2006年间中国制造企业数据的数据集。这些数据将包括所有权类型、生产、财务/资产负债表结果、进出口交易价值和进出口交易数量等信息。数据集将用于做两件不同的事情。首先，他们将研究一系列“目的地”市场(例如，非中国市场)的企业生产率、投资、出口销售和价格之间的关系。其次，采购经理人指数将使用这些数据来估计企业需求、定价和出口供应的结构模型。为此，他们将开发一个包含需求方和生产方公司级别异质性的建模框架。第三，他们将评估企业在研发和资本方面投资的动态结构模型，以研究质量升级和生产率提高作为中国出口市场成功来源的重要性。最后，他们将使用完整的模型来研究市场条件的可能变化，如贸易自由化对出口、投资和公司业绩的影响。更广泛的影响包括通过理解使一些制造企业成为出口商的原因，为经济政策提供新的见解。

This award funds empirical research on international trade and competition between manufacturing firms. The PIs will combine two existing data sources to create a dataset with data on Chinese manufacturing firms from 2000 - 2006. The data will include information on ownership type, production, financial/balance sheet results, value of import/export transactions and quantity of import/export transactions. The data set will be used to do two different things. First they will study the relationship between firm productivity, investments, and export sales and prices across a range of 'destination' (eg, non-Chinese) markets. Second, the PIs will use the data to estimate a structural model of firm demand, pricing and export supply. To do this, they will develop a modeling framework that incorporates both demand side and production side firm level heterogeneity. Third, they will estimate a dynamic structural model of firm investment in R&D and capital to study the importance of quality upgrades and productivity improvement as sources of Chinese success in export markets. Finally, they will use the full model to study the effect of possible changes in market conditions such as trade liberalization on exports, investments, and firm performance.Broader impacts include new insight for economic policy by understanding the causes that make some manufacturing firms successful exporters.