) on facilitating knowledge spillover and quality upgrading. Our context is the Chinese automobile industry, where foreign …

challenges for future empirical research, as well as the need for additional data on technology and innovation …

matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more … profit margins. We rationalize these patterns with a stylized model of the firm lifecycle with complementarity between the …

The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs … confronting Chinese firms. Due to firm-level differences in trade engagement, customs trade data combined with tariff changes …-in-differences examination of these firm-level data reveals that trade war increases in U.S. tariffs and Chinese retaliatory tariffs both raised …