Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK housing market. We find that the housing market barely reacted to a 60 …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier …

countries. Our causal estimates demonstrate that in countries with uncoordinated wage setting, regions with higher import …

shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … regions with greater exposure to import competition also suffer from higher crime rates, a deterioration of health outcomes …, and a dissolution of traditional family structures. We argue that new import tariffs such as those imposed by the US in …

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … also show that import penetration has a significant and negative impact on industry wage differentials whatever the country …

regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade flows of other high-income countries as instruments for regional import … and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …