In this article, I estimate the impact of the Democratic tariff platform on its electoral outcome using congressional district data on election to the House of Representatives from the years 1982 to 1994. I control for many other financial, historical, and social factors that could affect the...

Zum Verständnis des jüngsten Handelskonflikts zwischen China und den USA - Der Status von Chinas Marktwirtschaft und Strukturreformen: Die Hintergründe des Handelskriegs zwischen den USA und China -- Der morgige Tag: Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Trumps Handelskrieg. - Die potenziellen...

Trade theory has no clear prediction on how import protection affects an importing sector's relative size. In this paper, we estimate the impact of U.S. trade protection on industrial production relative size based on a translog GDP functional system. Using an industrial panel data set and...

Previous studies have recognized that campaign contributions and lobbies affect trade policy. However, whether or not trade policy affects electoral outcome is far less discussed. This paper thus introduces a theoretical framework to explain how trade platform could affect the vote pattern....