We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and
China trade relations during the past 20 years. We first discuss the origins of the China …

We investigate the impact of a large and persistent economic shock on “deaths of despair.”
We find that areas more exposed to a plausibly exogenous change in international trade …

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and
weather variations on international trade and financial flows. Regarding the effects on trade …

This paper links the sharp drop in US manufacturing employment after 2000 to a change in
US trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries more …

This study examines whether product market competition affects corporate social
responsibility (CSR). To obtain exogenous variation in product market competition, I exploit …

We study pricing and non-pricing features of loan contracts to gauge how the credit market
evaluates a firm's customer-base profile and supply-chain relations. Higher customer …

We study the employment responses to the expansion of US exports and to the import
competition, especially from China. We find that although import competition reduces jobs …

We develop a property‐rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of
uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final‐good producer contracts with a distinct …

We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US
manufacturing employment has evolved across industries, firms, establishments and …

The unit values of internationally traded goods are heavily influenced by quality. We model
this in an extended monopolistic competition framework where, in addition to choosing price …