, particularly for firms that did not trade altogether prior to the import start and for build-up periods of two and three years … towards the import start. I do not find evidence that firms become more productive after an import start because of learning …

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

Using import competition from China as a bank funding shock, we find that banks reallocate credit by curtailing small … suggest that financial integration via bank branch networks attenuates the propagation of import penetration in non … rural areas where bank financing is needed the most. We also document the real effects of the import competition via the …

The import competition literature suggests that Chinese industrial policies and technological trends have altered the … strategy. We propose a novel indicator capturing import competition that highly internationalised companies face. We examine …

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