We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …

instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher …

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have …The impact of imports from low-wage countries on domestic labor market outcomes has been a hotly debated issue for … experienced contemporaneous increases in the volume of imports and in the wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers. However …

2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …

to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced …China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short … technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in China. We exploit regional variations in capital goods import exposure …

recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic … waste and the recent import ban. Combining data on plastic waste imports with PM2.5 data at the city level for the years …

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …