Identifying the existence of Chinese subsidies, their size, and their impact on other countries has long been a challenge for the international trading system. Myrto Kalouptsidi (Harvard University) explains a new technique she has developed to overcome these challenges and reveal how much China’s industrial policy transformed the shipbuilding industry for the country and world (40:59).

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• Barwick, Panle Jia, Myrto Kalouptsidi and Nahim Zahur. Forthcoming. Industrial Policy Implementation: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shipbuilding Industry. Review of Economic Studies.
• Kalouptsidi, Myrto. 2018. Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: The Case of Chinese Shipbuilding. Review of Economic Studies 85, no. 2: 1111–1158.
• Kalouptsidi, Myrto. 2014. Time to Build and Fluctuations in Bulk Shipping. American Economic Review 104, no. 2: 564-608.