democracies are more likely to import surveillance AI from China. This bias is not observed in AI imports from the US or in … import China's surveillance AI in years of domestic unrest. Such imports coincide with declines in domestic institutional … China. First, China has a comparative advantage in this technology. It is substantially more likely to export surveillance …

. However, we also document that starting to supply other "superstar firms" such as those who heavily export or are very large …

crucial part in accounting for income differences. We also relate technology transfer to imports, showing that imports are …

universities. The two reforms have adopted different models in the allocation of university patent ownership. The former completely … allocated the patent ownership to universities, while the latter allocated 70% of the patent ownership to the inventors. Based … on Chinese patent data and university statistical data, we empirically test the effects of these two university-patent …

exports and imports, and the implications of this choice for exchange rate pass-through into prices and quantities. We derive …-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …, small non-importing firms tend to price their exports in euros (producer currency) and exhibit complete exchange-rate pass …

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

data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows … that it accounts for both the large share of a small number of firms in sales around the world and for zeros in bilateral …