a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … equilibrium channels — weak overall U.S. job growth. Our central estimates suggest job losses from rising Chinese import … competition over 1999 through 2011 in the range of 2.0 to 2.4 million …

In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low …-2006 for US publicly-listed firms in the Compustat dataset. We find consistent evidence that Chinese import competition had a … instrument import competition in the US by using Chinese import penetration in the United Kingdom. Next we investigate this …

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … 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 …

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

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 …

We study the effect of import competition on workers’ mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the … mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition … in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find an increase in import competition to have a positive, statistically …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import … competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …

exploit the dismantling of import quotas on Chinese products with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-experiment and …

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region …

This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …