国际经济学workshop

主讲人：Zhihong Yu (University of Nottingham)

主持老师：余淼杰、余昌华（北京大学国家发展研究院）

时间：2021年6月17日（周四）上午10:30-12:00

线下：朗润园致福轩会议室

线上：加入 Zoom 会议https://zoom.com.cn/j/95365409407?pwd=cVVFYzZRRFBQVmwycTE2UTBHWTh2dz09

会议号：953 6540 9407

密码：513486

摘要：

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.

主讲人简介：

Zhihong Yu is Associate Professor at School of Economics, University of Nottingham. He joined the School of Economics in December 2005 as a ESRC postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) after completing his PhD at the University of Nottingham. His first degree is mathematic, and major research interests are in international economics, industrial organization, China and world economy.