, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and—most recently—China … substantial gains could arise from shifting two programs, China’s new national carbon market (~60% gain) and the California Low …

This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique new database … (1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (1995 to 2005). We find that China was relatively more … constrained under these regimes than other countries and that, as quotas were lifted, China's exports grew disproportionately …

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

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 …

OECD growth rate of 2% we find that trade integration with low-wage countries in the decade around China's WTO accession ….7%. China accounts for about half of these growth increases …

benefit. Differentiation increases the gains from trade. In establishment data from China spanning its 2001 WTO accession …

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 …