. Accounting for new imported varieties lowers the import price index for intermediate goods on average by an additional 4 …

OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China's WTO accession ….7%. China accounts for about half of these growth increases …

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth … that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …

that this dominance is inconsistent with use of a productivity-based allocation of quota licenses by the Chinese government …. Our counterfactual implies that elimination of misallocated quotas raised the overall productivity gain of quota removal …

We note the absence of prior literature on analytical structures to be used for China and other economies with … empirical literature discussing the productivity effects of Chinese SOE enterprise reform, and wider policy discussion of the …

other hand, corruption can be welfare improving if queuing costs are replaced by resource transferring bribes. We also show …

an inverted U-shaped function of firm productivity. It increases with import competition and is lower than the social …In a stylized model, firms differentiate their products to escape import com- petition. Facing a nested CES demand … benefit. Differentiation increases the gains from trade. In establishment data from China spanning its 2001 WTO accession …

declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …

We develop a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity - in terms of productivity differences … productivity of competing firms. We analyze how these features vary across markets of different size that are not perfectly … in that market. Aggregate productivity and average markups thus respond to both the size of a market and the extent of …