China's growing economic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America has been
a source of major controversy. The official Chinese position maintains that the growth of …

Previous studies for developed countries show negative short-run impacts of automation on
employment and earnings. In this paper, we instead examine whether automation by a key …

Thirty years after the region embarked on large-scale liberalization, trade policy could have
been expected to become all but irrelevant. Instead, a mismatch between expectations and …

This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on informality and wages in
the Peruvian manufacturing sector in 2001–2010. Using data from the Peruvian Household …

In this paper, we analyze the impact of Chinese competition on manufacturing firms in El
Salvador between 2005 and 2013 using manufacturing survey data and customs transaction …

We developed hypothetical basic laws of trade that could reconstruct the theory of
international trade. These laws could make global trade coherent and optimize the gains of …

This paper studies the impact of import competition from China on labor outcomes in the
Peruvian manufacturing sector in 2001–2010. Using data from the Peruvian Household …

This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms' performance
in the manufacturing sector in Peru in 2005–2015. Using a firm-level dataset that covers the …

We use the China shock in Brazil as a quasi-natural experiment to revisit the impact of trade
on firm productivity, innovation, and employment. The results corroborate some of the key …

Previous studies for developed countries show negative short-run impacts of industrial
robots on earnings and employment. This paper examines whether robotization by a major …