supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11CGL107,10BJY081 and 10CJY052);Key Social Science Projects in Universities in Jiangsu(Grant No.2011ZDAXM004);New Century Excellent Talents Program in University of Ministry of Education of China(Grant No. NCET-09-0291)
This paper studies the duration of Chinese manufacturing exports and its determinants, using disaggregated 6-digit level Harmonized System product trade data from 1995 to 2007. Cox proportional hazard, Weibull and exp...