differentiation. As a result, while firms in import-competing industries cut capital expenditures and employment, R&D-intensive firms …

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 …

In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low …-2006 for US publicly-listed firms in the Compustat dataset. We find consistent evidence that Chinese import competition had a … instrument import competition in the US by using Chinese import penetration in the United Kingdom. Next we investigate this …

. It documents that more innovative firms outperform less innovative firms at both margins of exports - they export more … goods and they export to a larger number of countries. All these differences are statistically highly significant and large …

export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …

This paper investigates the extent to which international trade hinges onpatents. We analyze the export and patenting … observe export and patenting activities worldwide and at the product level. We exploit how heterogeneity of patent …

We ask whether production related subsidies have a role to play in explaining Chinese firms' export performance. We … probability to export. Secondly, our approach enables us to allow these two effects to differ depending on the share of firms that … considered in evaluations of subsidies on export performance. Our estimation results provide a sobering assessment of the role of …

export, quality innovation, and cost innovation decisions. Estimation results show that export, quality innovation, and cost … raises next-period export demand by 47%. Counterfactual analyses suggest that (1) foreign market growth has a larger impact … on firm export and innovation decisions than domestic market growth, but neither market significantly affects firm …

Development (R&D) and export decisions in Turkey. We empirically test to what extent firms’ R&D and export decisions are … examining the export effect is invalid for Turkey. Additionally, as expected, government support and the transfer of technology … increases the probability of a decision to export. Furthermore, both export and R&D decisions exhibits substantial differences …