主持人:徐航天 副教授、院長助理

時間：12月4日（周三）上午10:00-11:30

地點：經貿學院大樓401

陳志遠：賓州州立大學經濟學博士生（預計2020年畢業），于2013年和2017年獲得中國人民大學經濟學學士和碩士學位。研究領域是産業經濟學，國際貿易和發展經濟學。研究興趣包括企業創新，生産率測算，和中國經濟。研究成果發表于European Economic Review, Economic Modelling, International Review of Economics & Finance, 經濟研究，經濟學（季刊），世界經濟等刊物。論文曾獲第七屆張培剛發展經濟學優秀論文獎和第18屆安子介國際貿易論文三等獎。

Title: Made and Created in China: Super Processors and Two-way Heterogeneity

Abstract:

In this paper, we show that there exists a special breed of firms that are active in both ordinary and processing exports. Contrary to the existing literature that describes processing firms as inferior, these mixed firms are superior to other firms in multiple dimensions, and hence we call them “super processors.” We build on Antras et al. (2017) and Bernard et al. (2019) to develop a model in which firms are heterogeneous in multiple stages of production. Firms endogenously choose to become suppliers or final good producers, with those that excel in both manufacturing ability and blueprint quality engage in both activities. We test the theory by exploiting the adoption of the pilot “paperless” processing trade supervision programme by regional customs authorities in China that lowered the cost of processing trade but left ordinary trade costs unchanged. We find that facilitating processing exports induces productive domestic downstream firms to establish their own trademarks. Our results highlight that processing trade not only leads goods to be “Made in China,” but also “Created in China.”