FROM BEIJING TO BENTONVILLE : DO MULTINATIONAL RETAILERS LINK MARKETS ? Keith
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Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral exports between the retailers' Chinese operations and destination countries also served by stores in the retailers' networks. Second, Chinese city-level exports to all destinations may have grown if multinational retailer presence enhanced the general export capabilities of local suppliers. Evidence from Chinese city-level retail goods exports supports the capability hypothesis as the expansion of Chinese city exports follows the geographic expansion of the retailers' Chinese stores and global procurement centers. Keith Head Sauder School of Business, UBC 2053 Main Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 CANADA [email protected] Ran Jing School of International Trade and Economics University of International Business and Economics [email protected] Deborah L. Swenson Department of Economics University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616 and NBER [email protected]
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