We study the growth of Chinese imports into the United States from autarky during 1950-1970 to about 15 percent of … 1980s, and, despite China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, changed little throughout the late … the trade growth that followed China's WTO accession was a delayed response to previous reforms rather than a response to …

The US trade war against China in 2018-2019 can either enhance or diminish the US soft power in China, depending on … whether it is recognized as legitimate by Chinese citizens. We study how the viewership of US movies--an important element of … the US soft power--is affected by the trade war, utilizing variations across Chinese cities in the exposure to the Trump …

This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … Portuguese firms faced Chinese import competition, based on firm product mix and distribution of sales across countries. We find … economically and statistically significant employment declines in firms with more exposure to Chinese competition in European …

a large-scale scandal that affected the Chinese dairy industry in 2008. Leveraging rich firm-product level …

matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …

access) on facilitating knowledge spillover and quality upgrading. Our context is the Chinese automobile industry, where …

The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs … confronting Chinese firms. Due to firm-level differences in trade engagement, customs trade data combined with tariff changes …-in-differences examination of these firm-level data reveals that trade war increases in U.S. tariffs and Chinese retaliatory tariffs both raised …

In the two decades straddling China's WTO accession, the China Shock, i.e. the rapid trade integration of China in the … about the extent of China Shock's repercussions in their district at the time when they voted on China's Normal Trade … U.S. House of Representatives on China's Normal Trade Relations status, we formally test what information politicians …

This paper examines the relative "sophistication" of China's exports to the United States along two dimensions. First …, I compare China's export bundle to those of the relatively skill- and capital-abundant members of the OECD as well as to … similarly endowed U.S. trading partners. Second, I examine prices within product categories to determine if China's varieties …

. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …