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di Giovanni, Julian, Levchenko, Andrei A., and Zhang, Jing. Replication data for: The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114300V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a multi-country quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model. We simulate two alternative growth scenarios: a "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China's comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well-known conjecture (Samuelson 2004), the large majority of countries experience significantly larger welfare gains when China's productivity growth is biased toward its comparative disadvantage sectors. This finding is driven by the inherently multilateral nature of world trade.

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JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
      F43 Economic Growth of Open Economies
      O19 International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
      O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
      O47 Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
      P24 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: National Income, Product, and Expenditure; Money; Inflation
      P33 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, Relations, and Aid


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