products saw a decline in prices as Mexican plants faced more competition and gained access to cheaper inputs. Prices of …

Arguments in favor of school choice depend on the idea that competition between schools improves the quality of … education. However, we have almost no empirical evidence on whether competition actually affects school quality. In this study …, I examine the effects of inter-school competition on public schools by using exogenous variation in the availability and …

We use a natural experiment in China's health care reform, in which the government mandated zero markups for drugs sold …

and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that … industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …

-marital age cohort across China, which likely has triggered variations in the intensity of competition in the marriage market. The … is an important marker for relative status in the marriage market, then competition for marriage partners might motivate … the intensity of status competition. Our innovation is to explore regional variations in the sex ratio for the pre …

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that …

China's trade pattern is influenced not just by its overall comparative advantage in labor intensive goods but also by … geography. We use two variants of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model to study China's local comparative advantage. The theory … predicts that China's share of export markets should grow most rapidly where China's share is initially large. A corollary is …