.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …

the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …

This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors … manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and workers' bargaining power parameters according to sector, firm size and …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … fixed enterprise effects that controls for firm size, industry, and unobservable firm heterogeneity we see that the premia …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

period 1994-2006 in Japan and 7,828 firms over the period 1993-2008 in the Netherlands, we first apply two procedures to … classify 30 comparable manufacturing industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in terms of the type of competition … prevailing in product and labor markets. For each of the three predominant regimes in each country, we then investigate industry …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we ….74% per annum, of which the contribution of knowledge capital, our innovation measure, was 1.24% pa. In turn, manufacturing …We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …