federal policies in favor of key industries in swing states. Using detailed data on US trade policies during the past few … decades, we find that the level of trade protection granted to an industry during a presidential term depends on its … first terms, when the incumbent president can be reelected. We next examine the effects of politically motivated trade …

federal policies in favor of key industries in swing states. Using detailed data on US trade policies during the past few … decades, we find that the level of trade protection granted to an industry during a presidential term depends on its … first terms, when the incumbent president can be reelected. We next examine the effects of politically motivated trade …

contraction did not result in a massive wave of new protectionism. Comprehending why the 2008-9 economic crisis failed to trigger … and the 21st century multilateral trading system. While there was not a large scale resort to protectionism, the facts … simply do not support the idea that countries did not adjust their trade policies during this period. Policies like …

strong countercyclical trade policy response in the pre-Great Recession period of 1988:Q1 – 2008:Q3 during which increases in … trading partners led to substantial increases in new temporary trade barriers. We then apply this pre-Great Recession … the Great Recession – e.g., for the US and EU, the model predicts new trade barriers would cover an additional 15 …

This paper examines how trade protection is affected by changes in the value-added content of production arising … through global value chains (GVCs). Exploiting a new set of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules adopted in 1995 that impose … an exogenously timed requirement for countries to reevaluate their previously imposed trade protection, we adopt an …

result in a severely weakened World Trade Organization — was deliberate and out of frustration with the institution itself …

During the last decades, the United States has applied increasingly high trade protection against China. We combine … detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties — the most widely used trade barrier — with US input-output data to study … the effects of trade protection along supply chains. To deal with endogeneity concerns, we propose a new instrument for AD …

During the last decades, the United States has applied increasingly high trade protection against China. We combine … detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties - the most widely used trade barrier - with US input-output data to study … the effects of trade protection along supply chains. To deal with endogeneity concerns, we propose a new instrument for AD …

We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade … health care as an election issue. A counterfactual calculation suggests that the trade war (respectively, health care) can …