relationship between import competition and innovation by considering industry and firm heterogeneity. We find that firms in low … to be robust to a variety of measures for import penetration and innovation. …In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

followed by only-exporters; and iii) estimating export premium without controlling for import status is likely to overestimate … the actual value by capturing the import premium. Finally I show the robustness of the findings by providing evidence from … the panel data constructed from the original dataset and controlling for variables that are likely to affect firm growth …

the uncertainty of future tariff increases for Chinese goods — on U.S. firm innovation. We find a significant increase in …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade … Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is …

We examine the impact of import competition on firms’ innovation input and output. We conjecture that U.S. firms view … import competition from high-wage countries (HWCs) as “neck-and-neck” competition and will respond by intensifying innovation …. In contrast, U.S. firms will reduce innovation in response to import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs), because …

Innovation plays a key role in economic growth. In this paper, we investigate the effects of intermediate input tariff … reduction on the innovation activities of domestic firms. Input tariff reduction has two opposite effects on the innovation … decision of a firm: it may promote innovation because the cost of innovation activities decreases, but it may also result in a …