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 …

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 …

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 …

. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or foreign suppliers, but with higher costs in the latter case. Due to fixed … the model with newly-compiled monthly aggregate U.S. import data and industrial production data going back to 1962, and …

statistics from varying sources. Four main facts emerge: (i) intermediate inputs constitute a major share of imports, and their …; (iii) the imputed activity and job requirement content of German imports grows relatively more intensive in work … to the changing task content of German imports but German sector-level outcomes exhibit some covariation consistent with …

This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP … growth rates of importing countries play an important role in explaining how fast exports fall below the values of the same …

imports by domestic alternatives, and was stronger for smaller firms' exports …. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher … quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is …

-market price spreads. This is relevant for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. LNG transportation capacity is limited in the short … capture part of the price spread. We proceed to develop a method to value LNG exports under conditions of endogenous … value of LNG exports from the US to Japan. Our analysis shows that when transportation costs are correctly treated as …

country's imports. As a result, trade costs have a heterogeneous impact across country pairs, with some trade flows predicted … exporting country provides a small share of the destination country's imports. For other pairs, the currency union effect is …