We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

in a model of network formation with suppliers of heterogeneous productivity and matchability, buyers of heterogeneous … productivity, and intermediaries that reduce matching costs for a brokerage fee. Empirical evidence on trade activity across firms …

relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …

and countries. Firms' export decisions depend on a combination of firm “productivity” and firm-product-country “consumer … tastes,' both of which are stochastic and unknown prior to the payment of a sunk cost of entry. Higher-productivity firms … export a wider range of products to a larger set of countries than lower-productivity firms. Trade liberalization induces …

, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … results imply that China's WTO accession was the driving force behind the strengthening of production networks with its …