華南經濟論壇第245期：Shuichiro ?Nishioka 副教授講座
時間：2018年11月8日下午三點
地點：經濟與管理學院文2棟五樓會議室
演講人：Shuichiro Nishioka（West Virginia University）
題目：Trade and the Political Realignment in the 1980s:
Evidence from U.S. Presidential Elections
內容摘要：The Reagan Revolution cut deeply into the dominant Democratic coalition that began with the New Deal Democrats. This paper shows that the redistributional e¤ect of trade across U.S. regions played an important role in the political realignment in the 1980s. While the Reagan administration promoted fair and free trade, the Democratic Party responded by supporting protectionist measures against Japanese competitors. We show that voting shares for the Republican presidential candidates decreased in the Midwest where they faced strong import competition with Japan and increased in the South and the farm belt where U.S. exports to Japan created local business opportunities.