competitiveness may suggest that the nature of competition on the domestic market is altered. Instead, foreign competitiveness of …

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 a way consistent with preference and knowledge spillover effects, but not with escape-competition and trapped …

to explain the low levels of investment in research and development (R&D) activities by Chilean firms. …

If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the … linking investment and firm performance in the French and Italian manufacturing industries. It does so by putting forth a … novel methodology to identify investment spikes that corrects for size dependence. While maintaining the desired properties …

We study how foreign competition affects the composition of investments inside firms. A parsimonious model predicts … that firms have an incentive to shift their investments towards more short-term assets when exposed to tougher competition … competition is associated with a reduction of the firm-specific asset lifespan by about 4.5% on average. We additionally exploit …

. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with …

. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm …-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with …