Assessing the Divergence of Chinese Trade Patterns in Services:1982-2011

摘要

This paper studies Chinese trade patterns in eleven services categories during the period of 1982-2011.We find that net export capabilities of traditional labor-intensive services tend to be below the revealed symmetric comparative advantages,while there are positive propensities for divergence of trade patterns in the emerging knowledge-intensive services as a result of strategic export facilitation.Chinese trade patterns have been distorted from equilibrium.This may improve the dynamic comparative advantage at cost of low economic efficiency.