In 2018, the United States launched a trade war with China, marking an abrupt departure
from its historical leadership in integrating global markets. By late 2019, the United States …

Trade policy uncertainty (TPU) has become an important source of economic uncertainty
and research. We review the main sources and measures of TPU. We then provide a …

After decades of supporting free trade, in 2018 the United States raised import tariffs and
major trade partners retaliated. We analyze the short-run impact of this return to …

We study the employment responses to the expansion of US exports and to the import
competition, especially from China. We find that although import competition reduces jobs …

The last two decades have witnessed a shift in the focus of international trade research from
trade policy to other forms of trade frictions (eg, transportation, information and …

A large and growing number of countries participate in multiple preferential trade
agreements (PTAs), which increasingly entail broad cooperation over policies extending far …

This paper quantifies the impact on US employment from imports and exports during 1995–
2011, using the World Input–Output Database. We find that the growth in US exports led to …

This paper studies how reduction in trade policy uncertainty affects firm export decisions.
Using a firm–product level dataset on Chinese exports to the United States and the …

This chapter reviews a recent body of theoretical and empirical work that studies the
normative and positive aspects of trade policy. We start by presenting reduced-form …

We show in a multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model that the effect of tariffs on entry,
especially in the presence of production linkages, can reverse the traditional positive optimal …