Trade Liberalization and Markup Dispersion: Evidence from China’s WTO Accession

Yi Lu; Linhui Yu (2015) · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-29", tranche="tranche150")

Yi Lu; Linhui Yu (2015). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Table 1.

Template assessment

The source t01post02 equals the industry’s 2001 tariff rate times the post-WTO indicator. Its coefficient measures differential tariff exposure, not a binary accession effect.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.