| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30058 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30058 |
| Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness | |
| Diana Van Patten; Esteban Méndez | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-05-16 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a single question on the ballot, 59% of Costa Rican adult citizens cast a vote on whether they wanted an FTA with the United States to be ratified, or not. We merge disaggregated referendum results with employer-employee data, customs and balance-sheet data, firm-to-firm transactions data, and data on household composition and expenditures. We document that a firm's exposure to the FTA, directly and via input-output linkages, significantly influences the voting behavior of its employees. This effect is greater for voters who are aligned with pro-FTA political candidates. We find that import competition plays a role in explaining votes against openness, and that within-industry heterogeneity is key in explaining votes, as compared with sector-level exposure. We also show that citizens considered the expected decrease in consumer prices when exercising their vote. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; International Economics ; Trade ; Globalization and International Relations ; Development and Growth |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30058 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587732 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Diana Van Patten,Esteban Méndez. Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness. 2022. |
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