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Intellectual Property Policy and County Economic Growth: A Quasi-natural Experiment from the Intellectual Property Powering County Project 知识产权政策与县域经济增长：知识产权强县项目的准自然实验

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12557

Changlin Yu, Bing Shen

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Unjustified Discontents 一带一路 "倡议及其不合理之处

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12561

Pompeo Della Posta, Qian Liu

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The Multifaceted Impact of Education on Fertility: Unpacking the “BASIC” Effects in China 教育对生育率的多方面影响：解读中国的 "基础 "效应

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12558

Yufei Liu, Chuanmin Zhao

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The Frontiers in Manufacturing Technologies Initiative and University Innovation 制造技术前沿倡议与大学创新

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12553

Xuan Leng, Yichuan Zhang

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Collateral Monetary Policy, Regional Financial Development, and Nonfi nancial Firms' Shadow Banking Activities 抵押品货币政策、地区金融发展和非金融企业的影子银行活动

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12552

Chao Yuan, Hai Jiang, Jiawen Ren, Nikos Kapitsinis

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E-commerce, Pandemic Shock, and the Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises 电子商务、大流行冲击与中小企业的生存之道

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12550

Zengdong Cao, Qin Tu, Nichola Latoya Williams

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Diplomatic Relations and Investment Location of Chinese Multinationals: An International Political Economy Perspective 外交关系与中国跨国公司的投资地点：国际政治经济学视角

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12549

Diego Quer

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Quantifying Inter-regional Trade Inequality of China's Cities Based on Environmental-economic Benefits in Virtual Built-up Land Flow 基于虚拟建设用地流量的环境经济效益量化中国城市的区域间贸易不平等

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12554

Pengfei Wang, Hongbo Li, Zhenbin Huang

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Does Structural Matching between Finance and Law Promote Economic Development? 金融与法律之间的结构性匹配能否促进经济发展？

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12551

Baifang Wang

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How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact a Country's Position in Global Value Chains? 经济政策的不确定性如何影响一国在全球价值链中的地位？

IF 2.9 2区经济学

China & World Economy Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1111/cwe.12547

Jiaxuan Zhang, Hongsheng Zhang, Xuhang Shen, Bo Meng

{"title":"How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact a Country's Position in Global Value Chains?","authors":"Jiaxuan Zhang, Hongsheng Zhang, Xuhang Shen, Bo Meng","doi":"10.1111/cwe.12547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cwe.12547","url":null,"abstract":"Economic globalization in the 21st century has been characterized by the rise and spread of global value chains (GVCs). It faces significant challenges due to increasing domestic and international policy uncertainty in the context of emerging mega risks like geopolitical tensions and climate change. This paper begins by constructing a theoretical model for an open economy to study how risk-averse firms make decisions regarding the sourcing of intermediate inputs in an uncertain environment. Our model solution proposes that firms will source fewer intermediate inputs from countries with more economic uncertainty. An increase in domestic and foreign uncertainty will have opposite impacts on a country's position in GVCs. In this sense, we argue that a country tends to move downstream along GVCs if its own economic policies become more uncertain, and it tends to move upstream with an increase in the uncertainty of its trading partner countries. Our regression analyses, based on data including the World Input–Output Database, World Development Indicators, the UN Comtrade database, and the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, provide empirical support for this model-based conclusion. Our findings highlight that a nation must consider foreign economic policy uncertainty and maintain domestic policy stability to participate in GVCs.","PeriodicalId":51603,"journal":{"name":"China & World Economy","volume":"32 5","pages":"28-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142276524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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