.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising … import competition has led to reduced employment in mid-wage occupations compensated by an increased likelihood of employment …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

of partial US sanctions decreases trade by 16 percent. When complete export and import sanctions are implemented, US …, respectively. In contrast, the application of partial export and import sanctions leads to a decrease in trade by 13 percent and 17 …

late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the …, and college educated production workers. We find no evidence the heterogeneous effects of import competition can be …

Few firms import, even when formal trade barriers are low and despite substantial potential gains. Likely reasons are … and clothing quotas affects the number of import starters at the CZ level. Here the number of import starters from quota …

. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful … first-time patent applicants achieve significantly higher export growth, compared to otherwise similar first-time applicants …

particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export …-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify viable export opportunities: one of the consequences of the COVID-19 … pandemic is to have closed and shrunk export opportunities globally. Despite this we show that there are still significant …