We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets …, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while …

firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we show that import competition has caused worker-level adjustments that lead to job …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and … records, we find strong evidence that congressional districts exposed to larger increases in import penetration …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … analysis of the effect of surging import competition on U.S. innovative activities. Applying a novel internet-based matching … adjustment and for all measures of valuation suggest that the primary response of firms to greater import competition is to scale …

managers. Using Spanish firm-level data, we compare how family-managed and professionally-managed firms react to import … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially …

simple model is used to show that import competition may stimulate growth by reducing the market power of domestic innovators …. Specifically, import competition forces domestic innovators to chose between either quickening their pace of innovation or being … displaced by foreign innovators. The pro-growth effect of import competition is shown to be welfare-increasing. The paper …

import competition indeed affect the use of implicit agreements between employers and workers in a key aspect of their … to generate exogenous variation in import competition. I then show more directly that increased financial pressure on …