Ethnic Chinese Networks In China's Foreign Trade: Theory And Evidence

Recently, many economists and sociologists are devoting themselves to the research of social and business networks. In this dissertation, we investigate the Ethnic Chinese Networks in international trade. The dissertation consists of five chapters, with the arrangement of each chapter as follows:Chapter 1---The Literature ReviewChapter 2---The Economic Analysis of the Ethnic Chinese Networks (I)Chapter 3---The Economic Analysis of the Ethnic Chinese Networks (II)Chapter 4---Analysis of the Communication,Cooperation Mechanism and Network Scale of the Ethnic Chinese NetworksChapter 5---Empirical Study on the Ethnic Chinese Networks on International Trade and Inflow-FDI of ChinaThe main discoveries of this dissertation are as follows:1,The Ethnic Chinese Networks can decrease the cost of international trade; it also can produce "immigration preference effect" and "import substitution effect".2,Through technology diffusion mechanism in Global Commodity Chains, the Ethnic Chinese Networks improve the technology in China and east-south Asia.3,The Ethnic Chinese Networks can produce an "inverse U effect" on the economic growth.4,The Ethnic Chinese Networks' role of network intermediaries between Chinese merchant and foreign merchant are becoming more and more important.5,The Ethnic Chinese Networks can monopolize the industry and international trade of the inhabit country, but this monopolized power is decreasing with the emergence of super chain store and the changing environment.6,In different countries, The Ethnic Chinese Networks can form different industry clusters.7,There are an adverse relationship between the communication ability and the member's norm of the Ethnic Chinese Networks.8,There are many communication channels within the Ethnic Chinese Networks, and these channels can interaction each other.9,The cooperation culture of the Ethnic Chinese Networks is formed through the cultural diffusion and enculturation effects.10,Under restricted economic conditions can the Ethnic Chinese Networks form the cooperation and trust behavior principle.11,The Ethnic Chinese Networks' member have the incentive to maintain the optimal network scale because it is vital for network member's cooperation.12,It needs effective exterior govern mechanism to expand the Ethnic Chinese Networks scale.13,There are obvious interactions between the Asia Chinese Networks and ICT(Information and Communication Technologies) 's network on international trade.14,The Ethnic Chinese Networks can decrease informal barriers of inflow-FDI, 1% increase network density can increase 4.316% of inflow-FDI of China. But this effect reduces with time elapsing.15,Recently there are some distinct characteristics of inflow-FDI of China, especially for overseas Chinese investment.