Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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

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 …

Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms who penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential … associated with one firm's export activity reduce the cost of foreign market access for other firms. We identify two potential … sources of spillovers: export activity in general and the specific activities of multinational enterprises. We use a simple …

neighboring U.S. border city. The estimation results show strong support for the hypothesis that the growth of export assembly in …

Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced … China, a substantial fraction of commuting zones appears to have suffered absolute declines in average real incomes …