The recent decision to protect American-made tires from Chinese competition signals a new toughness on the part of the Obama Administration. Can we expect other Chinese imports to be similarly targeted for protection? If so, how will the Chinese react? Indications are that China will play...

Using a linear panel data model with a fixed-effect estimator, this article investigates the causal effect of the growing use of Chinese intermediates on the labour productivity growth in Nordic manufacturing production processes. The main result – based on changes within more than 70 global...

This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard IO-table based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. Using Chinese firm census data for both manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained optimization techniques, we...