A Study Of The Stimulating Effects Of Technology Spillover In International Trade Upon China's Economic Growth

Technology is the ultimate source of economic growth. Technology produces spillover effects. And international trade is one of the most important channels of transnational technology spillover. By means of empirical analysis, this thesis studies the stimulating effects of technology spillover in international trade on China's economic growth. Meanwhile, the thesis also analyses the functions of different trade factors such as the degree of trade opening, choices of trade partners and China's ability to absorb technology. By the end of the thesis, the author, faced with the existing problems in China's international trade, puts forward some policy suggestions.This thesis is composed of five chapters as follows:The first chapter makes introduction, which generalizes the purpose of this paper and retrospects some relevant literature and the academic results. This part also states the research methods and significance as well as the innnovations and drawbacks.The second chapter focuses on the background knowledge introduction in the field of international trade technology spillover. It not only describes the basic running mechanism of international trade technology spillover, but also displays the relating influencing factors.The third chapter is about quantifying the stimulating effects on China's economy from foreign trade by empirical analysis. Via the empirical analysis between China's foreign trade, especially the high-tech commodities' import&export trade, and China's Total Factor Productivity, the author gets the quantifying result about how China's foreign trade stimulates its economy growth. This chapter also plays a transitional part for the next chapter.The fourth chapter is the core empirical part. Through the econometrics tools, it observes and studies on the stimulating effects of technology spillover in international trade upon China's economic growth. Bases on the classical model of Coe&Helpman(1995), the author adds some more dependent variables such as degree of trade opening, choices of trade partners and China's ability to absorb technology, which might make this model adjust to some extents for further practical analysis. The fifth chapter offers the suggestions. In order to solve the problems exposed by the empirical part and the current problems in China's reality, the author puts forward some trade suggestions.