We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …

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 …

In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We …

We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small … open economy of Belgium. We observe quarterly firm-product data at the 8-digit level on quantities sold and firm … find that a 0.01 increase in the import share leads to a 1.05% gain in technical efficiency. This elasticity translates …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and …. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting … records, we find strong evidence that congressional districts exposed to larger increases in import penetration …