Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2018)

Session: Chapter 11 International Economics

11 articles
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China's Investment in Pakistan: Challenges and Opportunities

Wajeeh Ullah, Bo Yang, Hong-Fei Zhu
This paper investigates the challenges and opportunities in Pakistan for China’s investment. Since Pakistan and China has prolonged political relationship and connecting geographical location, the CPEC agreements was finally signed, which provides wide range opportunities exist for China’s investors....
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Is Trade Openness Good or Bad for Environment in Pakistan; an ARDL Bounds Testing Approach

Saima Ashraf Awan, Muhammad Saeed Meo, Amogh Ghimire, Ra-Yan Wu, Pei-Fen Zhuang
This study explored the relationship between trade openness, foreign direct investment, GDP and environmental quality in Pakistan using time series data for time period of 1971-2016.To examine long-run and short-run association among projected variables, we employed autoregressive distributed lag ARDL-bounds...
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How the Evolution of the UK Annual Dataduring 1950-2007 relates with the Developments of Macroeconomic Theories

Xi-Yu Ren
How the development of the macroeconomic theories and political policies affects the UK macroeconomic data during 1950-2007 were analysed by using unemployment rate, GDP growth rate and consumer price rate as the three basic indicators of macroeconomic performances. Findings indicate that development...
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Positive Analysis of Potential in China’s Cotton Import

Chun-Xiang Liu, Rong Chen
Since 2003, China has been the largest importer of cotton in the world. Generally, China’s cotton import has relatively high market centralization at present with the cotton imported from top three trading partners taking up 74.94% of the total import of cotton. This paper constructed an improved gravity...
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Analysis of Social and Environmental Information Reported by American SMEs

Zhen Su
This paper reports on in-depth empirical study into SMEs in America. It is found, based on descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, that the level of sustainable information reporting of American SMEs is improving, corporate from high-profile industry tend to disclose more sustainable information,...
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Analysis of Competition and Complementarity in the BRICS Export Products

Pei-Zhi Wang, Yu-Xin Zhao, Ling-Xi Chu
BRICS are representatives of emerging economies. Since twenty-first Century, Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa have developed rapidly and become leaders in developing countries. It is of great significance to study on the trade between the BRICS countries. This paper based on the Ricardo's...
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How Does the Host Country's Political Environment Affect China's OFDI to ASEAN

Xin-Ying Liu, Shen-Ying-Jie Zhang, Rui Li
In 2010, the China-ASEAN trade area was officially launched, which made China's foreign direct investment to the ten countries of ASEAN increase further. We take a fixed effect model to make a more comprehensive and detailed analysis of the factors influencing the impact of China's direct investment...
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The Interpretations of China's Exports-Productivity Paradox and Policy Implications

Pei-Zhi Wang, Li-Ping Sun, Shu-Yue Zhang
Explaining China's Export-Productivity Paradox is a hot issue in the field of international trade. This paper attempts to systematically explain China's Export-Productivity Paradox from the perspective of trade driving force. The major factors affecting trade summarized by this paper are as follows:...
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Trade Liberalization and Chinese Firms’ Employment Scale

Chun-Yan Zhao, Song-Bai Liu
This paper examines the effect of trade liberalization on firms’ employment scale on the basis of the sample of Chinese industrial firms. The results show that trade liberalization enlarges the firms’ employment scale. The paper also finds that the effect of trade liberalization differs according to...
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Asymmetric Cointegration between Services Exports and Economic Growth in Sri Lanka: Based on Nonlinear ARDL Model

EAC Priyankara, Zhao-Hua Li
This study examines the asymmetric cointegration between services exports and economic growth in Sri Lanka.A nonlinear ARDL model is employed to analyze on the annual time series data over the period from 1984-2013.The results show that(1) ignorance of asymmetries between services exports and economic...
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Problems and Countermeasures in the Construction of China-Russia Free Trade Area

Nan Yan
The free trade area is an important form of regional economic integration. On the basis of expounding the necessity of the China-Russia free trade zone, this article analyzes the problems existing in the establishment of China-Russia free trade zone from the angles of commodity size and structure, trade...