We investigate the impact of import competition from low-cost countries on the exit of domestic firms from the …

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 …

analyze the relationship between import competition and vertical integration. Exploiting exogenous variation from changes in …Recent theoretical contributions provide conflicting predictions about the effects of product market competition on … India's trade policy, we find that foreign competition, induced by falling output tariffs, increases backward vertical …

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

promotion and partial import liberalization policies of 1980 based on the Tobit model is found to be qualitatively quite …

influence on political decisions. The paper analyses relationship between firm entry institutions and import competition inside …

influence on political decisions. This paper analyses the relationship between firm entry institutions and import competition …

reconcile these findings by linking part of the increase in domestic concentration to import competition. Although concentration … increase. We find that higher import competition caused a decline in the market shares of the top twenty U.S. firms. …

Using administrative data on U.S. multisector firms, we document a cross-sectoral propagation of the import competition …