Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …

. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … competition implies a reduction in the manufacturing employment-population ratio of 1.54 percentage points, which is 55% of the … employment rate. Reductions in population headcounts, which indicate net out-migration, register only for foreign-born workers …

' absence and had heterogeneous effects: larger firms and those with direct contractual relationships in export markets suffered …

information at the firm-level, we show that the horizontal shock is detrimental to firms' sales, employment, and innovation … often not significant - of the vertical shock on firms' sales, employment, and innovation …

identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …

study uses Chinese firm-product-level export data to examine how an AD action, a very targeted trade policy against a … specific product in a specific export destination, affects a multiproduct firms' price and quantity decisions across its other … products and export destinations. We find robust evidence for a new phenomenon we call within-firm cross-product trade …

rest of world. Most countries export products that complement the US and substitute China, and a subset operate along … downward-sloping supplies. Heterogeneity in responses, rather than specialization, drives export variation across countries …

of skills in the production network. A firm-specific export demand shock from a rich country increases the firm's skill …, endogenous quality choices, and network formation. An economy-wide export demand shock of 5 percent induces exporters and non …