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Archive | 2013

Evolving Property Rights and Shifting Organizational Forms: Evidence from Joint-Venture Buyouts Following China's WTO Accession

Fariha Kamal; Mary E. Lovely

China’s WTO accession offers a rare opportunity to observe multinationals’ response to changes in property rights in a developing country. WTO accession reduced incentives for joint ventures while reducing constraints on wholly owned foreign subsidiaries. Concomitant with these changes was a more liberal investment environment for indigenous investors. An adaptation of Feenstra and Hanson’s (2005) property rights model suggests that higher the productivity and value added of the joint venture, but the lower its domestic sales share, the more likely the venture is to be become wholly foreign owned following liberalization. Theory also suggests that an enterprise with lower productivity but higher value added and domestic sales will be more likely to switch from a joint venture to wholly domestic owned. Using newly created enterprise-level panel data on equity joint ventures and changes in registration type following China’s WTO accession, we find evidence consistent with the property rights theory. More highly productive firms with higher value added and lower domestic sales shares are more likely to become wholly foreign owned, while less productive firms focused on the Chinese market are more likely to become wholly domestic owned rather than remain joint ventures. In addition to highlighting the importance of incomplete contracts and property rights in the international organization of production, these results support the view that external commitment to liberalization through WTO accession influences multinational and indigenous firms’ behavior.


Archive | 2014

Trade Liberalization and Labor Shares in China

Fariha Kamal; Mary E. Lovely; Devashish Mitra

We estimate the extent to which firms responded to tariff reductions associated with China’s WTO entry by altering labor’s share of value. Firm-level regressions indicate that firms in industries subject to tariff cuts raised labor’s share relative to economy-wide trends, both through input choices and rent sharing. Labor’s share of value is an estimated 12 percent higher in 2007 than it would be if tariffs had remained at their 1998 levels. There is significant variation across firms: the impact is larger where market access is better and it is influenced by union presence and state ownership.


Archive | 2012

Decomposing Aggregate Trade Flows: New Evidence from U.S. Traders

Fariha Kamal; C.J. Krizan

Using firm-level data on export transactions, we uncover a rich set of results about the extensive margins of exporting and exporter responses during periods of global downturns. We perform our analysis with respect to firm size, age, ownership status, and sector to emphasize the role of firm heterogeneity. We uncover a larger role for firm entry and exit in changes in annual export flows of single-unit, smaller, and younger firms. Young, small firms perform best during both periods of crises as well as non-crises periods. We also decompose the margins of U.S. imports at the U.S. importer, foreign supplier, and U.S. importer-foreign supplier pair levels. While export flows are closely correlated with global business cycles, import flows more closely approximate U.S. economic cycles. Additionally, both pair and foreign supplier flows are far more volatile than U.S. import flows, that is, U.S. importer-foreign supplier matches experience more churning on average than do either U.S. importers or foreign suppliers.


Journal of International Economics | 2016

Buyer-Seller Relationships in International Trade: Do Your Neighbors Matter?

Fariha Kamal; Asha Sundaram


International Review of Economics & Finance | 2012

Does deeper integration enhance spatial advantages? Market access and wage growth in China ☆

Fariha Kamal; Mary E. Lovely; Puman Ouyang


CESifo Economic Studies | 2013

Labor Allocation in China: Implicit Taxation of the Heterogeneous Non-State Sector

Fariha Kamal; Mary E. Lovely


Journal of International Business Studies | 2016

The Impact of Information and Communication Technology Adoption on Multinational Firm Boundary Decisions

Wenjie Chen; Fariha Kamal


Journal of Regional Science | 2014

DOES FIRM OWNERSHIP AFFECT SPILLOVER OPPORTUNITIES? EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE MANUFACTURING

Fariha Kamal


Archive | 2015

Identifying Foreign Suppliers in U.S. Merchandise Import Transactions

Fariha Kamal; C.J. Krizan; Ryan Monarch


Archive | 2013

Measuring "Factoryless" Manufacturing: Evidence from U.S. Surveys

Fariha Kamal; Brent R. Moulton; Jennifer Ribarsky

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Puman Ouyang

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

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Brent R. Moulton

United States Department of Commerce

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Wenjie Chen

George Washington University

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Jennifer Ribarsky

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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