at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …, ultimately, for economic development. In this paper, we provide the first evidence that countries' import tariffs affect the rate …

labor unions in recent decades. We find that between 1990-2007, import competition due to the "China Shock" lowered union …We assess whether and why trade competition partly explains the sharp decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize …

We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small … find that a 0.01 increase in the import share leads to a 1.05% gain in technical efficiency. This elasticity translates … get from their "core" good and firms respond to competition by focusing more on their core products. Instrumenting import …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … analysis of the effect of surging import competition on U.S. innovative activities. Applying a novel internet-based matching … adjustment and for all measures of valuation suggest that the primary response of firms to greater import competition is to scale …

understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the … local labor market level, consistent with local general equilibrium effects that amplify the impact of import competition …

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …

theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to strategic complementarities and endogenous choice to import … intermediate inputs. The model predicts that firms with high import shares and high market shares have low exchange rate pass … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …