The Role of Shipping in World Trade
June 9, 2021
The market for shipping services can influence trade flows, the products that countries sell, and how price shocks reverberate through trade.
Trade
June 9, 2021
The market for shipping services can influence trade flows, the products that countries sell, and how price shocks reverberate through trade.
June 7, 2021
Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College) joins Michael Klein on EconoFact Chats this week to discuss how ideas about free trade have changed over the last 250 years.
February 22, 2021
Paul Krugman joins Michael Klein for a discussion on globalization, trade and industrial policy, and protectionism and tariffs.
October 5, 2020
Michael Klein (EconoFact), and Kadee Russ (UC Davis) discuss the current landscape of international trade, its winners and losers, and trade policies.
February 6, 2020
The 2018 tariffs raised domestic steel prices, putting downstream U.S. manufacturing firms at a disadvantage relative to foreign competition.
January 28, 2020
There is room for some reasonable amendments to the WTO’s dispute settlement and to rules relating to developing countries. Net benefits are unclear.
January 15, 2020
U.S. agricultural exports to China fell from 2017 to 2018 and remained depressed in 2019. The government provided unprecedented levels of support to farmers.
November 24, 2019
Michael Klein (Tufts) and Marc Melitz (Harvard) discuss the employment costs of tariffs and the broader disruption they can cause for integrated supply chains.
October 29, 2019
Firms that export tend to be more productive, and often pay higher wages. Given these characteristics, should helping more firms export be a goal for policy?