yields additional insights. Firms more subject to market forces exhibit greater price sensitivity. The price elasticity is … value of China’s exports to the US responds negatively to real renminbi (RMB) appreciation, while import responds positively …. Further, the combined empirical price effects on exports and imports imply an increase in the real value of the RMB will …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face … to move out of manufacturing conditional on separation. These findings reveal that import shocks impose substantial labor …

provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then … surprisingly, that the gains to the import sector are larger than the gains to the export sector. Moreover, the size and the …

show that import competition is a major cause of job polarization. Import competition with China accounts for about 17% of …

interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … source country deviates from the reported import value in the destination country. Analyzing 4-digit product level data for …

. This flight from quality was triggered by a fall in aggregate demand, was more acute when households could substitute …

We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups … quantify TFP, demand and markups and show how they are correlated among them, across time and with measures obtained from other … key firm-level outcomes: export status and size …

Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as … well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a cross section of monthly firm-product-destination level French export …

services against PI units. This service discrimination weakens intra-brand competition and reduces the degree of price … presence of the service discrimination could lower the quality, because lower quality leads to a larger price gap. Consequently …

data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure increases the support of nationalist parties and causes labor market … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new …