innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … rate, consistent with increased intellectual property competition …

at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … threat spurs innovation incentives in sectors close to the technological frontier--successful innovation allows incumbents to … prevent entry. In laggard sectors it discourages innovation--increased entry threat reduces incumbents' expected rents from …

Interest in the role of entrepreneurial entry in innovation raises the question of the extent to which tax policy … entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households … innovative entrepreneurs confounds interpreting this specification. Using education as a measure of potential for innovation, we …

voters who are aligned with pro-FTA political candidates. We find that import competition plays a role in explaining votes …

host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …

competition between the two channels, the paper uses a two step approach. First, it fits hedonic regressions for the prices paid …