"What are the short- and medium-term effects of an international-trade shock that increases competition for domestic manufacturing firms? We address this question by combining firm-level investment data from Peruvian manufacturing, bilateral trade-flows between Peru and China, and a quantitative...

We develop a model of capital accumulation in an open economy that imports investment goods from large foreign firms with market power. We model investmentgoods producers as a dynamic oligopoly and characterize a Markov Perfect Equilibrium with a Generalized Euler Equation. We use this...

We analyze the role of endogenous capital-embodied innovation in macroeconomic dynamics. We first leverage a newly assembled dataset to show that the quality of new capital goods is procyclical because new-product introduction by capital-goods producers drops during recessions. We then develop a...