Popular Support For Trade Agreements And Partner Country Characteristics
consultancy
trade-wars
Economic Inquiry, 2021. With Tom Coupé.
Public support for a trade agreement depends not just on its expected economic effects but on characteristics of the partner country — including factors with no direct bearing on trade volumes, such as perceived political alignment and cultural distance. We use survey experiments to separate economic from non-economic drivers of trade-agreement support, with direct implications for how governments should sequence and communicate new trade deals.
Published in: Economic Inquiry, 59(1), 549–566