贸易自由化、产品转换与多产品出口企业

Trade Liberalization, Product Switching and Multi-product Export Firms in China

本文利用2000年到2006年中国制造业出口企业的数据对此期间中国制造业出口市场的产品转换状况进行了分析,并在中国加入WTO的背景下,分析了以最终产品关税以及中间投入品关税水平下降为主要形式的贸易自由化对企业进行产品转换行为的影响。结果表明:在中国制造业出口市场上,大量企业存在产品转换行为,以关税下降为主要特征的贸易自由化政策对企业的产品转换行为确实有促进作用。

In this paper, we use the data of China＇s manutacturlng exporters from 2000 to 2006 to analyze the status of product switching in Chinese manu- facturing export market. After accession to WTO, we use instrumental variables to analyze how the reduction in the tariff items of final product and intermediate inputs affected firms＇ product switching behaviors. The results show that in the Chinese manufacturing export market, there is lots of firms switch the products they manufactured every year, the trade liberalization policy does have a role in promoting the firm＇s products switching behavior.