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Name: 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”
Start: 2026-05-20T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-20T13:00:00-04:00

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January 2026
January 21 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Sojun Park (MIT), “Innovation, Imitation, and Political Cleavages in International Trade and Patent Protection”

When do exporting firms impose trade barriers against their foreign competitors in global markets? In this paper, I contend that the decline of market power drives exporting firms’ support for […]
May 2026
May 20 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

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 […]

January 2026

May 2026