In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries, accounting for up to 10% of total inward FDI flows for certain countries in … these years. We use growth accounting methods to assess what portion of this elevated growth can be attributed to Chinese …

effect on income. However, in Africa rugged terrain afforded protection to those being raided during the slave trades. Since … the slave trades retarded subsequent economic development, in Africa ruggedness has also had a historical indirect … for Africa the indirect positive effect dominates the direct negative effect. Looking within Africa, we also provide …

Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data … exported from each country during Africa's slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves …

systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 – 1900 …

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets … instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases …

reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer … relative declines during each event window; a symmetric effect is observed for Chinese companies with high Japanese exposure …. The effect on Japanese companies is more pronounced for those operating in industries dominated by Chinese state …

increasing import penetration, China's entry into the WTO, and growing US multinational employment abroad. We find significant … between industry and occupational analyses. While other research has focused primarily on China's trade, we find that … offshoring to China has also contributed to wage declines among US workers. However, the role of trade is quantitatively much …

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

This paper examines the relative "sophistication" of China's exports to the United States along two dimensions. First …, I compare China's export bundle to those of the relatively skill- and capital-abundant members of the OECD as well as to … similarly endowed U.S. trading partners. Second, I examine prices within product categories to determine if China's varieties …