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 …

-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 …

democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …

a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …

In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …

This study investigates the economic impact of China's "stadium diplomacy" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploiting the … widely held notion that China's development finance projects constitute "white elephants". …

trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …

matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …