Based on 10-K textual analysis, we assemble firm-level offshore sales networks (OSN) and find strong return predictability among industry participants that have overlapping offshore sales activities. This intra-industry return predictability based on offshore sales networks is distinct from that...

We use 10-K filings to construct novel text-based measures of the extent to which U.S. firms are exposed to three offshore activities: the sale of output, purchase of input, and ownership of producing assets. Our main result is that selling output abroad is associated with higher stock returns,...

This paper examines the effects of structural change, long-term TFP trend and marginal return to capital on China's economic growth, comparing such effects with those in the other East Asian economies. Our empirical results show that China's TFP converges to a higher level, and the marginal...