Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this …-product firms live forever, and the large firms invest in innovation in order to enlarge their product spans. All firms export. I … show that an increase in the competitiveness of foreign firms can increase or reduce innovation efforts of a large multi …

innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition …

at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …

It has long been believed that international competition forces domestic firms to behave more competitively. I term …