-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …

that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …

In this paper, we examine the impact of China's growth on developing countries that specialize in manufacturing. Over … 2000-2005, manufacturing accounted for 32% of China's GDP and 89% of its merchandise exports, making it more specialized in … the countries most exposed to the adverse consequences of China's export growth. Our results suggest that had China …

understood. In this paper, we explore the contribution of the swift rise of import competition from China to sluggish U ….S. employment growth. We find that the increase in U.S. imports from China, which accelerated after 2000, was a major force behind … import competition from China over the period 1999 to 2011. The estimated employment effects are larger in magnitude at the …

In this paper, we estimate the benefits to countries that purchase goods from China of having access to intermediary … services provided by Hong Kong. Traders in Hong Kong supply information on markets and producers in China, which provides … China exported to the rest of the world. Our results suggests that gains to intermediary services provided by Hong Kong …

-sorting models of intermediation and with the outsourcing of production tasks from Hong Kong to China. Additional results suggest …In this paper, we examine Hong Kong's role in intermediating trade between China and the rest of the world. Hong Kong … distributes a large fraction of China's exports. Net of customs, insurance, and freight charges, re-exports of Chinese goods are …

In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by …

. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting …

In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We … observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes …. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China tend to split factory ownership and input control with managers in China …