刘勇政,叶光亮——REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION:Competition Policy and Trade Barriers: Empirical Evidence from China
时间:2019-03-14
This paper examines the impact of competition policy on inter-regional trade barriers among provinces in China. Using data from 28 Chinese provinces for the period 1994–2013, we show that the implementation of competition policy—as measured by a number of indices that we construct—can effectively reduce inter-regional trade barriers. We provide results that are based on both fixed effects and instrumental variables estimators to support the causal nature of the established link. The effect is fo