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Volatility and diversification of exports: firm-level theory and evidence (2016)
Journal Article
Vannoorenberghe, G., Wang, Z., & Yu, Z. (2016). Volatility and diversification of exports: firm-level theory and evidence. European Economic Review, 89(October), 216-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.07.002

We show using detailed firm-level Chinese data that, among small exporters, firms selling to a more diversified set of countries have more volatile exports, while the opposite holds among large exporters. This a priori surprising result for small fir... Read More about Volatility and diversification of exports: firm-level theory and evidence.

Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China’s anti-bribery blacklist (2016)
Journal Article
Jin, Z., Zhou, L., & Wang, Z. (2017). Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China’s anti-bribery blacklist. Applied Economics Letters, 24(4), 258-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2016.1181826

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article empirically investigates why in a corruption-pervasive country only a minority of the firms get caught for bribery while the majority get away with it. By matching manufactu... Read More about Who gets caught for corruption when corruption is pervasive? Evidence from China’s anti-bribery blacklist.

Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US (2016)
Journal Article
Upward, R., & Wang, Z. (2016). Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US. Economics letters, 144, 71-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.04.025

We study how Chinese textile and clothing firms adjusted the product structure of their exports to the US, as triggered by the termination of Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) quotas. We find that the removal of MFA quotas induced firms to expand their pr... Read More about Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations : evidence from Chinese exports to the US.