This paper has two aims. The first is to reduce the range within which the true U.S.-China bilateral trade deficit lies … revised US-China bilateral trade deficit is $15 billion to $20 billion in 1994, and $16 billion to $22 billion in 1995 … US-CHINA bilateral trade deficit in recent years reflected many factors. In our opinion, the two chief factors are (i …

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …

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

market data. By estimating the effect of U.S.-China tariff announcements on aggregate returns and the differential returns of … firms exposed to China, we identify their effect on treated and untreated firms. We show theoretically and empirically that …