文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Cross-border E-commerce and China's Exports during the COVID-19 Pandemic

作者：Che, Yi[1];Yuan, Meng[2];Zhang, Yan[3];Zhao, Lin[3]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai, Peoples R China;[2]Xiangtan Univ, Sch Business, Xiangtan, Peoples R China;[3]Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Econ, Shanghai, Peoples R China

年份：2024

卷号：32

期号：3

起止页码：215

外文期刊名：CHINA & WORLD ECONOMY

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:001226510100007)】；

基金：Yi Che gratefully acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72073095) and 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) and the Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science (No. 2023BJB010).

语种：英文

外文关键词：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.