Is competition from China so special?
| dc.contributor.author | Heid, Benedikt | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mínguez, Raúl | |
| dc.contributor.author | Minondo, Asier | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-31T10:32:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-31T10:32:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-01 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2025-10-31T10:32:08Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Competition from China is perceived as particularly damaging. We study whether this is true for firm performance. Using the universe of Spanish export transactions, we find that an increase in competition from China does not have a more damaging effect on export revenues, prices and number of exported products than an equally sized increase in competition from other countries. We document, though, that Chinese competition raises the probability that a firm ceases to export a good to a destination more than competition from other countries. This effect declines over time. We document an omitted variable bias in studies focusing only on Chinese competition, even when controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of destinations for different products within firms. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Grant/Award Number: RTI2018-100899-B-I00; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Grant/Award Number: MINECO ECO2016-79650-P; Australian Research Council, Grant/Award Number: DP190103524; Basque Government Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture, Grant/Award Number: IT885-16 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Heid, B., Mínguez, R., & Minondo, A. (2021). Is competition from China so special? World Economy, 44(1), 64-88. https://doi.org/10.1111/TWEC.12991 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/TWEC.12991 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1467-9701 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0378-5920 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/4183 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | |
| dc.rights | © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd | |
| dc.subject.other | China | |
| dc.subject.other | Competition | |
| dc.subject.other | Exports | |
| dc.subject.other | Spain | |
| dc.subject.other | Transaction-level data | |
| dc.title | Is competition from China so special? | en |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dcterms.accessRights | metadata only access | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 88 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 64 | |
| oaire.citation.title | World Economy | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 44 |