Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

Theoretical research has predicted three different effects of increased import competition on plant-level behavior … period 1983-2001 to decompose these effects. I derive the relative contribution of technology and import competition to the …

A short--run model for estimating the procompetitive effects of foreign competition on markups in an oligopolistic …

. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs …

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 …