Bown, Chad P.; Conconi, Paola; Erbahar, Aksel; … - 2024
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 … protection, exploiting exogenous changes in the identity of swing states across terms and heterogeneous exposure to these …