PROCESSING TRADE BIASES THE MEASUREMENT OF VERTICAL SPECIALIZATION IN CHINA

Economic Systems Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-76

  Yang, Cuihong ^a   Dietzenbacher, Erik ^b,c   Pei, Jiansuo ^d   Chen, Xikang ^a   Zhu, Kunfu ^a   Tang, Zhipeng ^a,e  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

China; Input output tables; Processing trade; Vertical specialization

Indexed keywords

EXPORT; IMPORT; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPECIALIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84922213749     PISSN: 09535314     EISSN: 14695758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2014.955463     Document Type: Article

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