.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 …

This paper investigates the determinants of export behavior among Indian manufacturing firms, focusing in particular on …&D, positively affects both firms' probability to export and firms' export volumes. We also find that imported intermediate inputs …, incorporating foreign technology, play an important role in expanding export activities of firms. On the other hand, we find that …

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 …

This work investigates how the export status of the firm influences the patterns of growth at different age classes. We … data on export transactions. We find that the positive relationship between export status and growth declines with firm age … role of the export status which is stronger for young exporters or born globals. Exploiting the product-country level …

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 …

we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular … terms of ability to expand the export basket of countries, a migrant with college education or above is about ten times more …

and the pattern of technology adoption within the industry. The "export threshold", which is estimated using the ROC … achieve in order to access export markets. To consider the pattern of technology adoption we also estimate a "technology line …". The relative positioning of the "technology line" and the export threshold generates a new taxonomy of firms allowing for …