competition between the two channels, the paper uses a two step approach. First, it fits hedonic regressions for the prices paid …

We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …

supply chains - and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …

deregulation in China. Such deregulation leads to higher screening standards, lower interest rates, and lower delinquency rates for …

Using new measures of expanded Internet access in China and internet-based search, we examine how competitive shocks … from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of …

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that …

China's trade pattern is influenced not just by its overall comparative advantage in labor intensive goods but also by … geography. We use two variants of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model to study China's local comparative advantage. The theory … predicts that China's share of export markets should grow most rapidly where China's share is initially large. A corollary is …

and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …