that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to … key firm-level outcomes: export status and size …

affected US prices. Thus, the pre-2005 period is used to filter out the effects of other exchange rates on import and producer … prices. Additionally, utilizing the remainder of the sample, the pure effect of an RMB appreciation on US import prices and …, in turn, the effect of RMB-induced US import price fluctuations on US producer prices is established. In a panel spanning …

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 …

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 …

This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …

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

sectors. Thus, while domestic and export markups in the traded sector converge across countries, markups diverge across …

differentiated goods. Allowing differentiated-good firms to export creates an additional channel through which a reduction in the …