This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … has noted a tendency for countries to concentrate exports in a few sectors. We show that this concentration arises from a … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across …

The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze …

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 …

with global fixed export costs and one with bilateral fixed export costs. With global costs, import sales per product …-office revenues per movie. The data thus appear to reject the bilateral-fixed-export-cost model in favor of the global-fixed-export …

Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …

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