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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

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 […]
February 2026
February 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Lisa Dellmuth (Stockholm), Paper TBD
April 2026
April 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Junghyun Lim (UNC), Paper TBD

Moderator: Stephen Chaudoin
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 […]

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