Whose Aid is Beneficial to Firms'Exports?Evidence from a Post-disaster Aid Experiment in China
作者机构:School of International BusinessSouthwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina School of EconomicsRenmin University of ChinaChina Institute of Studies for the Greater Bay AreaGuangdong University of Foreign StudiesChina
出 版 物:《China & World Economy》 (中国与世界经济(英文版))
年 卷 期:2024年第32卷第2期
页 面:73-96页
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学科分类:02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020206[经济学-国际贸易学]
基 金:The authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically by their last names.They are grateful for the useful comments and discussion from Pinghan Liang,Hong Ma,Dahai Fu,Shiqi Guo,Xifang Sun,and referees,and for support from the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.23&ZD041) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.71973037 and 71703128).Tan Li acknowledges financial support from the Guanghua Talent Project of the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
主 题:China export knowledge spillover post-disaster aid
摘 要:Post-disaster aid is widely regarded as important in helping local recovery and *** paper examines the effectiveness of post-disaster aid on exports,which are a driving factor of economic *** reports a natural experiment in China–the case of post-disaster aid following the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008–to examine how donors experiences affected the exports of manufacturing firms in disaster-stricken *** export experience of the donor was *** coming from donors with more export experience was more beneficial to the exports of firms in recipient counties than aid from less experienced donors.“Learning from the donoris a potential channel through which this effect *** is,firms in recipient counties learned from donors export experience by exporting more products similar to those of donors,exporting more to the destination countries of donors,and participating in the donors supply-chain networks by exporting more of the donors ***“learning from the donoreffects show that knowledge spillover can occur between spatially distant parties,which complements the literature.