ch. 1. The origins of the Open Door Policy in China -- ch. 2. Secret displomacy undermines the Open Door -- ch. 3. The growth of nationalism in post-1911 China -- ch. 4. The debacle at Paris -- ch. 5. The 1917 October Revolution's impact on the Open Door Policy -- ch. 6. The Washington...

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...