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

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign directinvestment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new datafrom Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … evidence that firms with fdi are lessproductive than firms that export.... …

impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …

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 merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and …

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 merge information from surveys performed by the …

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 …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the …

trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which … are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a …

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …