时间：2018年11月8日下午三点

地点：澳门永利6774文2栋五楼会议室

演讲人：Shuichiro Nishioka（West Virginia University）

题目：Trade and the Political Realignment in the 1980s:

             Evidence from U.S. Presidential Elections 

内容摘要：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.