The Impacts of Quality and Technology on Chinese Construction Material Exports: 1992-2006

The gravity model has been used frequently to analyze bilateral trade flows between countries. This paper proposes three gravity models to explore the impacts of quality and technology attributes on the construction material export of China from 1992 to 2006. According to the estimation results, a positive relationship can be found between export unit values and export flows. Moreover, the finding reports that export unit values are positively related to the Chinese construction techniques use to produce them and construction technique has a positive relationship with the construction export trade flow.