This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …

This paper adds to the scarce empirical evidence related to the impact of climate change on the manufacturing sector … municipalities are combined with the census of the manufacturing industry. The census data covers the universe of German … manufacturing plants with more than 20 employees, close to 40.000 plants annually, and spans across more than two decades from 1995 …

States over the last three decades. Using confidential census data for the manufacturing sector, we show that typical … increase. We find that higher import competition caused a decline in the market shares of the top twenty U.S. firms. …