California and February 2021 in Texas demonstrate, supply shortfalls can have large economic and public health consequences. An …

-hour rises as a household consumes more electricity per month. More recently, in California, opponents of a proposal to lower …

The US trade war against China in 2018-2019 can either enhance or diminish the US soft power in China, depending on … the US soft power--is affected by the trade war, utilizing variations across Chinese cities in the exposure to the Trump …

facto political power, such as lobbying or the use of paramilitary forces, to partially or fully offset their loss of de … of the exercise of de jure and de facto political power. A change in political institutions, for example a move from … nondemocracy to democracy, alters the distribution of de jure political power, but the elite can intensify their investments in de …

competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The … effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms and it concentrates particularly in those producers which are behind the … technological frontier. We discuss theoretical mechanisms driving lobbying of firms away from the technological frontier: not only …

well as industry lobbying data. We find that tariff levels are largely determined by firm lobbies, but about about 5 …

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate … about voters' identities or their views of how the world works. We identify a complementarity between worldview politics and … identity politics and illustrate how they may reinforce each other. Furthermore, we show how adverse economic shocks may result …