We use detailed data on Chilean imports between 1990 and 2005 to analyze the causes of China’s import penetration relative to other countries. China exports a wide variety of products. The growth in China’s exports, however, is mainly driven by an increase in import penetration within common...

China’s exports have skyrocketed in the last 15 years. We use highly-disaggregated import data from Chile between 1990 and 2005 to decompose the causes of such export performance. We find that China’s high export growth is mainly explained by an increase in the quality of its varieties...

This paper presents a simple methodology to estimate the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital for firms operating in perfectly competitive factor markets with constant-elasticity-of-substitution technologies. It is applied to a cross-count

International wage differences -driven by international technology or factor endowment differences-encourage the flow of Foreign Direct Investment from high- to low-wage countries. However, the access of high-technology firms may drive domestic wages up, dampening the incentives for FDI flows. A...

El presente trabajo discute las oportunidades y desafíos que enfrenta Chile debido a la apertura y el crecimiento experimentado por China a partir de 1978. Para ello, se identifica el grado de competencia de las exportaciones Chinas para los productores Chilenos en distintas industrias, así...

The profitability gap between state-owned enterprises and the non-state industrial sector in China is significant. Using a highly-disaggregated database of China’s industry in 2003, we estimate an average return to capital in state-owned enterprises about 9% that of foreign-invested firms, and...

FDI introduces competition between foreign and domestic firms at the factor market level. If the latter are technology backward, cost pressures render them uncompetitive, and absolute advantage determine the pattern of foreign and domestic firms’ production. To compensate for technology...