direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to …% of total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector. Half of this reallocation to more productive plants …

10 countries studied. Thus, even for the developing countries most specialized in export manufacturing, China's expansion …In this paper, we examine the impact of China's growth on developing countries that specialize in manufacturing. Over … 2000-2005, manufacturing accounted for 32% of China's GDP and 89% of its merchandise exports, making it more specialized in …

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … productive. One interpretation of these results is that well managed firms are adopting modern lean manufacturing practices … practices of manufacturing firms may help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions …

footwear industry from 2002-2006 to estimate an empirical model of export demand, pricing, and market participation by …In this paper we use micro data on both trade and production for a sample of large Chinese manufacturing firms in the … destination market. We use the model to construct indexes of firm-level demand, cost, and export market profitability. The …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …

Network connections within MNCs seem to improve export market shares for Asian affiliates of those MNCs. In particular …, Asian affiliates of U.S. MNCs export more to markets where their parent firms' exports to affiliates are larger, and less to … markets where their parent firms export more to non-affiliates. However, the latter effect is much smaller per dollar of …

surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones. Measurement error … of this instability: Only 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in comparative advantage … (source-by-product factors), while another 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in bilateral …

Using data over more than a century, we show that shifts in the location of manufacturing industries are a domestic … age or become “standardized.” We exploit the China shock industries as a set of industries that were in the late … over the 20th century. The analysis also suggests that the resilience of local labor markets to manufacturing shocks …