Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13

This paper presents a simple model of subsidies with export share requirements (ESR) in a heterogeneous firm environment. A two-country general equilibrium version of the model with a single 100% ESR is calibrated using firm-level data from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Pe...

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Main Authors: Defever, Fabrice, Riaño, Alejandro
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Published: Oxford University Press 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29833/
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author Defever, Fabrice
Riaño, Alejandro
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Riaño, Alejandro
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description This paper presents a simple model of subsidies with export share requirements (ESR) in a heterogeneous firm environment. A two-country general equilibrium version of the model with a single 100% ESR is calibrated using firm-level data from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey collected by the World Bank for China. The calibrated model is used to gauge the change in subsidies with ESR that is consistent with the fall in the share of ‘pure exporters’, firms exporting all their output, observed in China, from 25.7% in 2002 to 11.1% in 2013. Our results indicate that a 6.9% reduction in the ad-valorem subsidy rate available to firms that export all their output is consistent with the observed fall in their share of exporting firms. Expenditure in subsidies (as a share of value-added) falls by 66% and welfare in China increases by 1.76% while real income in the rest of the world falls by 0.59%.
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spelling nottingham-298332020-05-04T17:06:36Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29833/ Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13 Defever, Fabrice Riaño, Alejandro This paper presents a simple model of subsidies with export share requirements (ESR) in a heterogeneous firm environment. A two-country general equilibrium version of the model with a single 100% ESR is calibrated using firm-level data from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey collected by the World Bank for China. The calibrated model is used to gauge the change in subsidies with ESR that is consistent with the fall in the share of ‘pure exporters’, firms exporting all their output, observed in China, from 25.7% in 2002 to 11.1% in 2013. Our results indicate that a 6.9% reduction in the ad-valorem subsidy rate available to firms that export all their output is consistent with the observed fall in their share of exporting firms. Expenditure in subsidies (as a share of value-added) falls by 66% and welfare in China increases by 1.76% while real income in the rest of the world falls by 0.59%. Oxford University Press 2015-04-16 Article PeerReviewed Defever, Fabrice and Riaño, Alejandro (2015) Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13. World Bank Economic Review, 29 . pp. 135-144. ISSN 0258-6770 China Subsidies export share requirements http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/suppl_1/S135 doi:10.1093/wber/lhv020 doi:10.1093/wber/lhv020
spellingShingle China
Subsidies
export share requirements
Defever, Fabrice
Riaño, Alejandro
Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13
title Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13
title_full Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13
title_fullStr Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13
title_full_unstemmed Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13
title_short Gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002–13
title_sort gone for good? subsidies with export share requirements in china: 2002–13
topic China
Subsidies
export share requirements
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