This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This
literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than …

This paper surveys the recent burgeoning literature that empirically examines the foreign
direct investment (FDI) decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the resulting …

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of
outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of …

Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000
and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the …

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 …

China has defied the declining trend in domestic content in exports in many countries. This
paper studies China's rising domestic content in exports using firm-and customs transaction …

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 article explores how reductions in tariffs on imported inputs and final goods affect the
productivity of large Chinese trading firms, with the special tariff treatment that processing …

Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the
complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few …

This paper examines why credit constraints for domestic and exporting firms arise in a
setting where banks do not observe firms' productivities. To maintain incentive compatibility …