辽宁大学经济学前沿高端讲座第一百零八讲 Protectionist Sentiment in the Era of the Global Value Chain

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2026-03-17 19:21:09

时间：

2026-01-16 10:00:00

地点：

辽宁大学崇山校区五洲园一楼会议室

报告人：

Nam Seok Kim

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关键词：

Global Value Chain, protectionism, trade policy, political economy, international trade, income level, factor endowment

简介：

This paper studies how individual exposure to the Global Value Chain (GVC) explains trade barrier preference. Using the cross-country individual-level survey data, we calculate the degree of exposure to GVC for every respondent. We show that GVC exposure significantly explains individual attitudes towards protectionist trade policy. However, the marginal effect of exposure to GVC differs according to the national income level and factor endowment of respondents’ countries. In a high-income (capital-abundant) country, respondents with more exposure to GVC prefer a lower trade barrier. However, in a low-income (labor-abundant) country, individuals who are more exposed to GVC prefer a higher trade barrier. These findings add the dimension of GVC to the existing stylized facts. As economic agents face heterogeneous gains from trade, they also face heterogeneous welfare gains from participating in GVC. Our estimations confirm that this heterogeneity is reflected in individual opinions on trade policy. As the political economy of trade policy has become more pivotal in forming election coalitions and political cleavage, our estimation results resonate with the importance of policy coordination, which can relieve the inequalities caused by GVC participation.

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