Concerns about export growth within the euro area peripheral countries due to a lack of competitiveness within the euro …

We analyze the impact of rising import competition from China on U.S. innovative activities. Using Compustat data, we … find that import competition induces R and D expenditures to be reallocated towards more productive and more profitable … identified in the previous literature. Indeed, our quantitative analysis shows no adverse impact of import competition on …

India''s exports nearly tripled in the 1990s. Decomposing export growth shows that it has been driven by incumbent …-choice model of the firm''s decision to export, we find evidence that economic liberalization has led to greater domestic … competition, spurring firm efficiency and increasing Indian firms'' competitiveness and ability to export. We show that export …

With China''s accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization''s most prominent nonmember. This paper … applies the gravity model to gauge whether this ""outsider"" status has been affecting Russia''s export structure. On the … various WTO procedures, although own-export restrictions could have a similar effect. The model points to Russia''s further …

China''s sectoral trade composition, product quality mix, and import content of processing exports have all changed … very wide. All this suggests greater caution in using historical data to simulate the response of the China''s economy to … external shocks and exchange rate changes. Analyses based on models whose estimated coefficients largely reflect the China of …

new empirical techniques. Import competition is found to have disciplined market power, regardless of the method used to … estimate industry profits. From the analysis of the markups, there is evidence that this is due mainly to intra-EU import … competition. The evidence for export discipline is much weaker …