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 …

The Trump administration changed US trade policy toward China in ways that will take years
for researchers to sort out. This paper makes four specific contributions to that research …

We use microdata collected at the border and the store to characterize the price impact of
recent US trade policy on importers, exporters, and consumers. At the border, import tariff …

We create a newspaper-based Equity Market Volatility (EMV) tracker that moves with the VIX
and with the realized volatility of returns on the S&P 500. Parsing the underlying text, we find …

Three major concerns drove the US into initiating the trade war, and they are (a) the concern
that China's chronically large trade surplus was depressing job creation in the US (b) the …

Global agricultural trade, which increased at the end of 2020, has been described as
“resilient” to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, the size and …

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU
and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of time until protectionist policies cause a …

Since the beginning of 2018, the United States has undertaken unprecedented tariff
increases, with one goal of these actions being to boost the manufacturing sector. In this …

The unexpected outbreak of the US-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import
and export tariffs confronting Chinese firms, and ushered in an era of unprecedented trade …

This paper studies the impact of the US-China tariff war on China, using high-frequency
night lights data and grid-level measures of tariff exposure. Exploiting within-grid variation …