Cross-border E-commerce and China's Exports during the COVID-19 Pandemic

作     者：Yi Che Meng Yuan Yan Zhang Lin Zhao Yi Che;Meng Yuan;Yan Zhang;Lin Zhao

作者机构：School of BusinessEast China University of Science and TechnologyChina School of BusinessXiangtan UniversityChina School of EconomicsShanghai University of Finance and EconomicsChina 

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3期

页      面：215-242页

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学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020206[经济学-国际贸易学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 

基　　金：support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.72073095) East China University of Science and Technology's Exploratory Research Fund Project.Yan Zhang gratefully acknowledges support from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2023110139) the Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science(No.2023BJB010). 

主　　题：China's exports COVID-19 pandemic cross-border e-commerce extensive margin of trade intensive margin of trade 

摘      要：China s exports experienced a rapid recovery after the outbreak of the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic.A primary engine was cross-border e-commerce(CBEC)trade,which bucked the downward export trend during the pandemic.By exploring the variation in the number of CBEC comprehensive pilot zones across provinces,we identified the causal impact of CBEC on exports using monthly province-product-destination data for 2019 and 2020.We found strong and robust evidence that CBEC contributed to exports during the pandemic by promoting the expansion of incumbent exports(intensive margin)rather than through the expansion of product categories and exporting partners(extensive margin).Specifically,higher pandemic risk suppressed the role of CBEC at the intensive margin while enhancing it at the extensive margin.Exports to developed countries benefited more from CBEC,both intensively and extensively.Compared with final products,a larger number of intermediate products were exported through CBEC after the outbreak of the pandemic.