Popular Support for Trade Agreements and Partner Country Characteristics – Evidence from an Unexpected Election Outcome

Abstract

Using quasi‐experimental data from a survey that was conducted immediately before and after the November 2016 presidential election, we analyze how the election of Donald Trump affected the willingness of Europeans to sign a trade and investment agreement with the United States. We find that the election outcome lead to an immediate and sizable negative effect on Europeans' image of the United States. But we do not find that, at the same time, there was a negative reaction in the willingness of Europeans to sign an agreement with the United States.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12927
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: © 2020 The Authors. Economic Inquiry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Western Economic Association International This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Business, Management and Accounting(all),Economics and Econometrics
Publication ISSN: 1465-7295
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2024 08:16
Date Deposited: 12 Aug 2020 14:36
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2021-01
Published Online Date: 2020-08-04
Accepted Date: 2020-06-10
Authors: Coupe, Tom
Shepotylo, Oleksandr (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-4990-6025)

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