A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much … import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

from a baseline OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China …In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers in-crease Southern purchasing power, which lifts …, raising growth to 2.7%. China accounts for about half of these growth increases. …

When will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the … producing old goods. Trade liberalization with a low wage country reduces the profitability of old goods and so the opportunity … cost of innovating falls. Interestingly, the "China shock" is more likely to induce innovation than liberalization with …

the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import … European technology upgrading over 2000-2007 (and even higher when allowing for offshoring to China). Rising Chinese import …

CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We …: the use of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and the rate at which state owned … introduction of FDI via SEZs. However, the SEZ effect disappears having accounted for the city-level composition of firms and …

Can temporary protection from trade with advanced economies foster the development of 'infant industries' in developing …

reduced trade with EU countries. We consider an optimistic scenario with relatively small increases in trade barriers between … capita by 1.1% and in the pessimistic scenario income per capita falls by 3.1%. The effect of Brexit on FDI and migration … would impose additional costs on the UK and following Brexit the UK would not benefit from future EU free trade agreements …