Amiti, Mary; Kong, Sang Hoon; Weinstein, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
apply this framework to understanding the implications of the U.S.-China trade war. Our results show that the trade …-war announcements caused large declines in U.S. stock prices, expected TFP, and expected inflation largely by moving macro variables …, but also by causing declines in the returns of firms trading with China. We find that markets expect the trade war to …