response face a trade-off between maximizing political targeting and mitigating domestic economic harm? We use the recent trade … escalation between the US, China, the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries to answer …

We use the recent trade escalation between the US, China, the European Union (EU), Canada and Mexico to study whether … on the potential trade-offs between achieving a high degree of political targeting and managing the risks to ones own …

The trade war initiated by the Trump administration is the largest since the US imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in the … 1930s and was still raging when he left office. We analyze how the trade war impacted the 2020 US Presidential election …. Our results highlight the political salience of the trade war: US trade war tariffs boosted Trump’s support but foreign …

response face a trade-off between maximizing political targeting and mitigating domestic economic harm? We use the recent trade … escalation between the US, China, the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries to answer …

the power to negotiate international trade agreements. Under FTA, Congress can only approve or reject negotiated trade … implications of this institutional procedure for trade negotiations. We describe a simple two-country trade model, in which … industries are unevenly distributed across constituencies. In the foreign country, trade negotiating authority is delegated to …

the economic impacts of the trade war tariffs in 2018. I find causal evidence that votes for the incumbent president …

The trade war initiated by the Trump administration is the largest since the US imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in the … 1930s and was still raging when he left office. We analyze how the trade war impacted the 2020 US Presidential election …. Our results highlight the political salience of the trade war: US trade war tariffs boosted Trump’s support but foreign …

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic … fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a single question on the ballot …

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties … subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share …

We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote … institutional channel for the political effects of trade shocks: the weakening of labor unions. We provide support for this … political parties with historical links to unions. Furthermore, the impact of the trade liberalization on the vote share of …