We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a …

. We combine information on rejections with Chinese firm-level export data. Border rejections amplify the turnover among …

of partial US sanctions decreases trade by 16 percent. When complete export and import sanctions are implemented, US …, respectively. In contrast, the application of partial export and import sanctions leads to a decrease in trade by 13 percent and 17 …

information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …

managers. Using Spanish firm-level data, we compare how familymanaged and professionally-managed firms react to import … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially …

In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low …-2006 for US publicly-listed firms in the Compustat dataset. We find consistent evidence that Chinese import competition had a … instrument import competition in the US by using Chinese import penetration in the United Kingdom. Next we investigate this …

. Export opportunities, instead, shift expected profits to the tail and increase the value of technological heterogeneity. We …, built from highly disaggregated US import data. Consistent with the model, financial development increases sales dispersion …. These results can be important for explaining the effect of financial development and factor endowments on export sales. …