Hanns-Günther Hilpert und Bettina Rudloff, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, sehen die EU-Handelspolitik in einer Nachhaltigkeitsfalle. Die EU verfolge ihre handelspolitischen Ziele zunehmend durch unilaterale und damit einseitig entschiedene Maßnahmen, deren Wirkung sich entlang...

India has become a key player in services, and critical in pharma and food security in the Global South. India is setting course to be a manufacturing hub with a mix of targeted subsidies and trade integration. First successes are visible: India now exports more machinery and the quality of its...

The US is Germany's largest trading partner, accounting for 11 percent of German exports and 7 percent of imports in 2023. Services comprise nearly 50 percent of German imports from the US and 30 percent of exports to the US, underscoring their significance in bilateral trade. Germany maintains...

Stormy-Annika Mildner, Aspen Institute, zieht eine Bilanz der Biden-Regierung. Bidens Handelspolitik stellte die amerikanischen Arbeitnehmer*innen und die Reindustrialisierung in den Mittelpunkt, mit Fokus auf einer Verringerung der Abhängigkeit von globalen Lieferketten. Diese...

This paper studies how foreign demand affects product quality specialization in international trade. In a model with non-homothetic CES preferences, firms choose quality levels based on global demand conditions, and countries with better access to high-income markets host more high-end...

We analyze the long-run evolution of populism and explore the role of globalization in shaping such evolution. We use an imbalanced panel of 628 national elections in 55 countries over 60 years. A first novelty is our reliance on both standard (e.g., the "volume margin", or vote share of...

We show using detailed firm-level Chinese data that, among small exporters, firms selling to a more diversified set of countries have more volatile exports, while the opposite holds among large exporters. This result, which stands in marked contrast to standard portfolio theory for small...

This paper analyzes the effects of trade liberalisation on the political support for policies that redistribute income between workers in different sectors. We allow for worker heterogeneity and imperfect mobility of workers across sectors, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and...