Country Reputation and Trade Policy Preferences - Using the News of the Election of Donald Trump as an Instrument

Tom Coupé and Oleksandr Shepotylo

Working Papers in Economics from University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance

Abstract: Using quasi-experimental data, a survey that was held immediately before and after the November 8th, 2016 USA elections, we analyse the impact of reputation on trade policy preference and find that the unexpected election of Donald Trump as 45th president of the USA had a sizeable negative effect on the reputation of the USA in Europe, as measured by the expectations of EU citizens about the future evolution of the USA. But this negative reputational shock seems to have affected in a positive (though not always significant) way the support for future economic cooperation with the USA, as measured by the support of EU citizens for a free trade and investment treaty with the USA. This provides some support for the idea that reputation and formal institutions are substitutes.

Keywords: Reputation; Trade agreements; Trump; TTIP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 F14 F50 F55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2017-11-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int and nep-pol
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://repec.canterbury.ac.nz/cbt/econwp/1708.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cbt:econwp:17/08

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers in Economics from University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Albert Yee ().