Motivated by the recent rise of populism in western democracies, we develop a model in which a populist backlash … development, and trade deficits are more vulnerable to populism, both in the model and in the data. Evidence on who voted for … Brexit and Trump in 2016 also supports the model …

Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic … distinguish between left-wing and right-wing variants of populism, which differ with respect to the societal cleavages that …

This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism …. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is 'an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it …. Second, there is no necessary relationship between populism and anti-globalization sentiment. Third, economists have …

We study whether anger fuels the rise of populism. Anger as an emotion tends to act as a call to action against … a more complex sense of malaise and gloom, rather than anger per se, drives the rise in populism …

Donald Trump, and find that the election decreased MENA children's utilization of vaccinations and well visits. Documenting …

A growing number of surveys elicit respondents' expectations for future events on a 0-100 scale of percent chance …

power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future … investments, which in turn prompts it to increase taxes next period. This induces low investment thus low future taxes, and so on …