We empirically examine how import competition affects sentiment toward China in local communities in the United States … using a news-based index for sentiment. Results are threefold. First, U.S. sentiment toward China peaked in 2007 before … turning negative. Second, communities more exposed to import competition from China have experienced a greater deterioration …

contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … associated with lower IT prices in European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations …

declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …

This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data …

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 …

framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes …. This in turn allows us to measure how changes in TFP-Q, demand and markups ultimately affected revenue TFP, as well as …-recession is due to both a weakening of demand and a decreasing TFP-Q pushing down sales, markups, revenue TFP and labour …

We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand deficiencies dominate in the short run. Quarter … role for demand stimulus policy to buffer the Covid-19 economic crisis. …

It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and … supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with …