effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to … diminish such support. Our national-level models show for the first time that increasing imports are associated with decreasing … incumbent vote shares, and increasing exports correlate with increasing vote shares for incumbents. These effects are large and …

. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … competition implies a reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced …

increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefitted overall, those competing most directly with imports … exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative …

exports and imports, and the implications of this choice for exchange rate pass-through into prices and quantities. We derive …, small non-importing firms tend to price their exports in euros (producer currency) and exhibit complete exchange-rate pass …-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …

census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …

about firm heterogeneity in trade. First, the bulk of exports and imports are captured by a few multi-product firms that … transact with a large number of countries. Second, the average importer imports more products than the average exporter exports … the growth in Chinese exports between 2003-2005 was driven by deepening and broadening of trade relationships by surviving …

U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview of how the margins of trade contribute to variation in U.S. imports … and exports across trading partners, types of trade (i.e., arm's-length versus related-party) and both short and long time …