-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

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

Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2007, we show that … industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …

-marital age cohort across China, which likely has triggered variations in the intensity of competition in the marriage market. The … is an important marker for relative status in the marriage market, then competition for marriage partners might motivate … the intensity of status competition. Our innovation is to explore regional variations in the sex ratio for the pre …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that …

and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …

virtues of the market economy do not lie so much in the vision of competition and decentralization embodied in the Arrow …-Debreu model, or the Lange-Lerner-Taylor analysis of market socialism, as they do in those more recent models analyzing competition …

the new equilibrium. A quantitative application to China illustrates the practical relevance of the mechanisms in our …

China's trade pattern is influenced not just by its overall comparative advantage in labor intensive goods but also by … geography. We use two variants of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model to study China's local comparative advantage. The theory … predicts that China's share of export markets should grow most rapidly where China's share is initially large. A corollary is …