This paper investigates the determinants of export behavior among Indian manufacturing firms, focusing in particular on …&D, positively affects both firms' probability to export and firms' export volumes. We also find that imported intermediate inputs …, incorporating foreign technology, play an important role in expanding export activities of firms. On the other hand, we find that …

A large body of literature in International Economics has analysed the impact of increased import competition on … labour costs (-1.4%/year) and less favourable exchange rates (-2.0%/year). By far the most important determinant of export … period. Our results also indicate that China's impact on Italian export performance is small and if anything positive. Much …

The import competition literature suggests that Chinese industrial policies and technological trends have altered the … strategy. We propose a novel indicator capturing import competition that highly internationalised companies face. We examine …

This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade … Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is …