Baqaee, David; Malmberg, Hannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
wars on real wages and consumption. The reason is that trade wars increase the relative price between investment goods and …-run capital stock, and pushes down consumption and real wages compared to scenarios when capital is fixed. We illustrate this …, long-run consumption and wage responses are both larger and more negative. With capital adjustment, U.S. consumption can …