Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …

. 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 …