When a product disappears from the store, one usually assumes the manufacturer has decided to cease production, which is commonly referred to as product elimination. With the increasing power retailers have on product line-ups, however, product removal decision could be entirely driven by...

Using Chinese manufacturing firm data over the period of 1998-2007, we find that firms become less capital-intensive after exporting, compared to similar non-exporting firms. To rationalize this finding that contrasts with existing evidence for most countries, we develop a variant of the...

This paper analyzes the causal relations between firms' productivity, factor intensity and export participation. Using propensity score matching techniques and firm-level panel data for Chinese manufacturing firms over the 1998-2007 period, we find strong evidence of domestic firms...