the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms' efforts to innovate (raise their … find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of …

"Over the past two decades, globalization, and more specifically the increased exposure to competition from low … costs are used as an exogenous measure of import competition. The authors find a positive and robust effect of import … competition on product quality. This effect is found to be particularly strong for non-exporting plants. The results also show …