How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can … reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US … export growth following the permanent normalization of trade relations with China (PNTR). But there was also an offsetting …

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

. Second, only a small share of these gains has been realized so far. And third, the WTO's TRIPS agreement has been …

examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful … first-time patent applicants achieve significantly higher export growth, compared to otherwise similar first-time applicants …