analyze the relationship between import competition and vertical integration. Exploiting exogenous variation from changes in …Recent theoretical contributions provide conflicting predictions about the effects of product market competition on … India's trade policy, we find that foreign competition, induced by falling output tariffs, increases backward vertical …

-wage countries has been little researched. This paper investigates the impact of Chinese import competition on the performance of … from 1998 to 2009. Increased import competition from China leads to an improvement in revenue productivity, and a reduction … channels through which trade shocks can affect plant productivity. Although import competition from high-wage countries has no …