岭南学术论坛－经济学系列Seminar－Growing like China

第578期岭南学术论坛（经济学系列Seminar）

报告题目：GROWING LIKE CHINA:
FIRM PERFORMANCE AND GLOBAL PRODUCTION LINE POSITION  

报 告 人：Zhihong YU（英国诺丁汉大学，副教授）

主 持 人：占超群（中山大学岭南学院，助理教授）

时     间： 2021年4月30日（周五）下午16:00-18:00

地     点：岭南堂汪道涵会议室

语    言： 中文+英文

Abstract:

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm lifecycle. We document a sharp rise in the upstreamness of imports, stable positioning of exports, and rapid expansion in production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more stages as they grow more productive, bigger and more experienced. This is accompanied by a rise in input purchases, value added in production, and fixed cost levels and shares. It is also associated with higher profits though not with changing profit margins. We rationalize these patterns with a stylized model of the firm lifecycle with complementarity between the scale of production and the scope of stages performed.

报告人介绍：

Zhihong obtained his PhD in University of Nottingham , and has worked in UoN as faculty member since then. His main research area is international trade and investment , and Chinese Economy. His recent research interest is firm level adjustments to globalisation from both empirical and theoretical perspectives.  He has published in top journals in related fields such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Internaitonal Economics,  European Economic Review and Economic Theory.  He is also now serving as the associate editor of The World Economy.

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