Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316561 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] East Asian Economic Review (EAER) [ISSN:] 2508-1667 [Volume:] 23 [Issue:] 3 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 311-329
Publisher: 
Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Sejong-si
Abstract: 
Since China's opening to international trade, the rapid growth of the country's export sector has been coupled by an intensification of migratory outflows of ethnic Chinese. The literature has already stressed the beneficial role of migration in enhancing bilateral trade. The present paper applies a gravity model in order to capture the impact of migration on Chinese exports for a relatively long period of time (1995-2017) where significant developments take place. We estimated four regressions, each of them confirming the positive network effects of migration for boosting export growth. Apart from the main finding, it appears that the role of institutional and geographical proximity can prove to be complementary for trade enhancement. The results finally suggest mixed effects due to the countries' import openness, indicating that China's free trade agreements acts as a substitute for smoothing trade competition from third countries.
Subjects: 
China
Migration
Export Flows
Gravity Equation
Trade Agreements
JEL: 
C51
F13
F22
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Document Type: 
Article

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