.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 …

are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

How does export liberalization affect firm location choice and the spatial concentration of economic activity? We … address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and … by the extensive margin. Third, the above effects are not exclusive to industries directly exposed to export shocks but …

services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience …

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 …