China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of
world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about …

Recent decades have seen the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), in which
production stages for individual goods are broken apart and scattered across countries …

To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US
local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from …

Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as
attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in …

Large exporters are simultaneously large importers. We show that this pattern is key to
understanding low aggregate exchange rate pass-through as well as the variation in pass …

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of
German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identification. Using event study …

This chapter reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in
differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of US
workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition …

This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes
inequality and poverty through its influence on earnings and employment opportunities …