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 …

show that import competition is a major cause of job polarization. Import competition with China accounts for about 17% of …

effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to …

productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable …

explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …

of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China's WTO entry …

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 …