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High-Speed Railways and Domestic Value Added in Exports
2024-06-18
Time: 10:00 am- 11:30 am, Jun. 18th, 2024
Speaker: Hiau Looi Kee
(World Bank)
Venue: 1F, Wanzhong Building, Langrun Garden, Peking University
Platform: Zoom
Meeting ID: 994 5991 6531
Passcode: inse
Abstract:
Since its WTO accession, China has been moving up the global value chains, exemplified by the rising domestic value added ratio (DVAR) in exports. Concurrently, China has also been upgrading its domestic infrastructure, showcased by the construction of high-speed railways (HSR). This paper derives a theoretical model relating HSR to DVAR in exports. The firm-level DVAR is further estimated with a new methodology solely based on customs transaction data. Results show that the rising DVAR is mainly driven by the processing exporters substituting imported materials with domestic materials when the processing exporters are connected to more domestic suppliers through HSR.
Speaker:
Hiau Looi Kee is a Lead Economist with the Trade Team of the World Bank Research Department. Her research focuses on trade and productivity growth at the firm and aggregate levels. Her current projects include studying the global value chains and domestic value added in exports, large scale estimations of trade policy measurements in terms of import demand elasticities, ad valorem equivalent of non-tariff measures and trade restrictiveness indexes. Her work has been published in top general interests and field journals, such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of International Economics.