Understanding the Recent Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict -- The Status of China’s Market Economy and Structural Reforms: The Issues behind the U.S.-China Trade War -- The Day After Tomorrow: Evaluating the Burden of Trump’s Trade War -- The Potential Impact of China–US BIT on China’s...

The firm level trade literature finds exporters are exceptional performers for a wide range of countries and measures. Paradoxically, the one documented exception is the world's largest trader, China. We show that this puzzling finding is entirely driven by the presence of firms that engage in...

In this article, I estimate the impact of the Democratic tariff platform on its electoral outcome using congressional district data on election to the House of Representatives from the years 1982 to 1994. I control for many other financial, historical, and social factors that could affect the...

The firm level trade literature finds exporters are exceptional performers for a wide range of countries and measures. Paradoxically, the one documented exception is the world's largest exporter, China. We show that this puzzling finding is entirely driven by firms that engage only in export...

This paper discusses a novel mechanism — worker training — in relation to the effect of output trade liberalization on firm productivity. Using disaggregated Chinese firm‐level production data from 2004 to 2006, we find strong evidence that output trade liberalization boosts firm...

We investigate whether trade liberalization encourages Chinese student enrollment in US universities. We focus on China's accession to the World Trade Organization and show that Chinese cities more exposed to this trade liberalization episode sent more students to US universities. Results...

How do reductions in input trade costs affect firm's sales decision between domestic and foreign markets? By using Chinese firm-level production data and transaction-level trade data during 2000-2006 to construct firm-specific input trade costs, we find rich evidence that a reduction in input...