Download or read book The Trade Impact of China on EMU written by Mr.Uffe Mikkelsen and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area countries. Simulations on the impact of productivity shocks in Chinese textiles and machinery suggest that the required adjustment in wages, prices, and factor re-allocation is widely heterogenous across euro area countries on accounts of their different specialization patterns. This raises the question of the distribution of gains and losses from external trade shocks.