Critically important: the heterogeneous effect of diplomatic tensions on trade

Julian Hinz and Elsa Leromain

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Abstract: With global value chains interlocking today’s economies, what is the impact of diplomatic tensions on international trade? We exploit variation in monthly data on imports, a measure of imported input use in the domestic economy, and the incidence of bilateral diplomatic tensions to show that their impact on trade is heterogeneous across countries and industries. Trade in industries that are crucial for domestic production is more sensitive to political tensions. We expose the underlying mechanism in a simple framework before testing it in reduced form.

Keywords: diplomatic tensions; political relations; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2020-09-01
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Published in Review of Industrial Organization, 1, September, 2020, 57(2), pp. 309 - 331. ISSN: 0889-938X

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