This paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from … 2011 to 2015, exploiting variations in import exposure by industry specialization and instrumenting for Chinese import …

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 …

This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 …

This paper uses information on import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 merged with information on … multiple import sourcing by importing the same good from more than one source country in a year and that a large share of total … imports is due to multiple sourcing. It is shown that the probability of multiple import sourcing and the share of imports …

Using firm-level tax administrative data from 2010 to 2017, we study the impact of Chinese import penetration on the … such competitive pressure. Specifically, by instrumenting Chinese import penetration with China's share in other low- and … middle-income countries' imports, we first explore whether Chinese import exposure - both direct (e.g. affecting the sector …

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 … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …

.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

using manufacturing survey data and customs transaction data. We find that Chinese import competition in El Salvador has a … of Chinese import competition in El Salvador reduces the employment of production workers by 2.27%. The negative impact …-percentage-point-increase in the measure of Chinese import competition in El Salvador reduces low-productivity firms TFP by 1 …