diminish such support. Our national-level models show for the first time that increasing imports are associated with decreasing …

information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find that policy can explain the majority of Britain's shift towards … Imperial imports in the 1930s. Trade policy mattered, a lot …

We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … as instruments. Our regression results show that firms that expanded their intermediate input imports expanded the volume … of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …

instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by industry to other high-income countries. Rising exposure increases …

data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows …

about firm heterogeneity in trade. First, the bulk of exports and imports are captured by a few multi-product firms that … transact with a large number of countries. Second, the average importer imports more products than the average exporter exports … and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer …

We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input … gain due to merchandise exports was 3.7 million jobs. In comparison, U.S. merchandise imports from China led to reduced … total job losses of 2.0 million. It follows that the expansion in U.S. merchandise exports to the world relative to imports …