Presenter: Ran
Jing
Topic: From
Beijing to Bentonville: Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?
Time: 16:00-17:30,
May 14th, 2013
Location: 608
Acedamic Hall
Abstract Four
of the top five largest retailers in the world-Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and
Metro-all entered China after 1995. Their subsequent expansion in China may have
influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced
bilateral exports between the retailers' Chinese operations and destination
countries also served by stores in the retailers' networks. Second, Chinese
city-level exports to all destinations may have grown if multinational retailer
presence enhanced the general export capabilities of local suppliers. Evidence
from Chinese city-level retail goods exports supports the capability hypothesis
as the expansion of Chinese city exports follows the geographic expansion of the
retailers' Chinese stores and global procurement centers.
