@article{37f0dd83af284c6d844c542a88d21595,
title = "Adjusting to China competition: Evidence from Japanese plant-product-level data",
abstract = "This study examines how the product mixes of Japanese manufacturing plants have been impacted by the rise of China imports over the period 1997–2014. It focuses on the way plants are embedded in their local environment mitigates this causal relationship. We find evidence that China import competition induced both product downsizing and product exit within Japanese manufacturing plants. Moreover, we find that those negative effects differ across plants according to various plant characteristics including the spatial organization of their parent firm, and the degree of their exposure to external agglomeration economies.",
keywords = "import competition, local product relatedness, product portfolio",
author = "Flora Bellone and Hazir, {Cilem Selin} and Toshiyuki Matsuura",
note = "Funding Information: The microdata of “Census of Manufacture” (Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, METI) and “Economic Census for Business Activities” (Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Communications) are provided by METI. We acknowledge the financial support by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP18K01619 (to Matsuura) and a grant‐in‐aid from Zengin Foundation for Studies on Economics and Finance (to Bellone and Matsuura). We also acknowledge the financial support of the InSHS of CNRS through its Programme SMI (. Soutien {\`a} la mobilit{\'e} Internationale Funding Information: The microdata of “Census of Manufacture” (Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, METI) and “Economic Census for Business Activities” (Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Communications) are provided by METI. We acknowledge the financial support by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP18K01619 (to Matsuura) and a grant-in-aid from Zengin Foundation for Studies on Economics and Finance (to Bellone and Matsuura). We also acknowledge the financial support of the InSHS of CNRS through its Programme SMI (Soutien {\`a} la mobilit{\'e} Internationale. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1111/roie.12585",
language = "English",
volume = "30",
pages = "732--763",
journal = "Review of International Economics",
issn = "0965-7576",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}