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Junghyun Lim (UNC), Paper TBD
Moderator: Stephen Chaudoin
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Jiakun Jack Zhang (Kansas, presenter), Clayton Webb (Kansas), Robert M. Kubinec (South Carolina) Daniel L. Nielson (UT Austin) and Danny Cowser (UT Austin), “Partisanship in the Boardroom: How Political Cues Shape Business Attitudes Toward Tariffs”
Survey experiments demonstrate that not pocketbook concerns but rather anxiety and social identity---perhaps especially partisanship---drive individuals' attitudes toward trade policy. Yet analysts widely believe that firm-level trade politics are solely determined by economic interests, with internationally competitive firms lobbying for free trade and uncompetitive firms demanding tariffs. However, firms are managed by people, who may […]