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.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 …
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world...
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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 …
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This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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. Export opportunities, instead, shift expected profits to the tail and increase the value of technological heterogeneity. We …, built from highly disaggregated US import data. Consistent with the model, financial development increases sales dispersion …. These results can be important for explaining the effect of financial development and factor endowments on export sales. …
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This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
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-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …
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individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance … significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older …-employment appears to act as an employment buffer for men but not women. The impacts of import competition on partnering and family …
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product-level tariff pass-through and show that a higher ratio of import demand elasticity over export supply elasticity leads … is mainly driven by their different import structures and product heterogeneity in tariff pass-through. China mainly …
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Using firm and industry data, we establish two facts: (i) Uncertainty about demand conditions not only reduces export … of export shares from the most to the least productive incumbents. Greater skewness of the demand distribution and …
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