Does "America First" help America? The impact of country image on exports and welfare

• Main Authors: CHANG, Pao-li, FUJII, Tomoki, JIN, Wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Country Image; Consumer Preferences; Trade Flows; Quantitative Welfare Analysis; Behavioral Economics; International Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2138; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3138/viewcontent/pipa_paper_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper estimates the effects of bilateral and time-varying preference bias on trade flows and welfare. We use a unique dataset from the BBC World Opinion Poll that surveys (annually during 2005-2017 with some gaps) the populations from a wide array of countries on their views of whether an evalu...