Economic policy uncertainty, intra-industry trade, and China's mechanical and electrical product exports.

ABSTRACT: Economic policy uncertainty has had an important impact on trade and sustainable economic development. Especially in some specific industries, uncertainty has increased dramatically. The extant related literature mainly analyzes the nexus between uncertainty and trade across different industries and focuses less on a specific industry. Using Chinese customs data on HS 8-digit products over the period of 2000-2013, this paper first investigates the impact of both foreign economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and domestic intra-industry trade on China's mechanical and electrical product exports to 23 trading partners and applies pooled OLS regressions to conduct an empirical study. This paper finds that EPU has a significant inhibition effect on mechanical and electrical product exports; convers

SUBMITTER: Liu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10795980 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature