Identity Politics and Trade Policy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan
• 署名单位: Princeton University; Harvard University; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6527
• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdaa031
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1101-1126
• 关键词: Social identity; COMPETITION; identification

摘要

We characterize trade policies that result from political competition when assessments of well-being include both material and psychosocial components. The material component reflects, as usual, satisfaction from consumption. Borrowing from social identity theory, we take the psychosocial component as combining the pride and self-esteem an individual draws from the status of groups with which she identifies and a dissonance cost she bears from identifying with those that are different from herself. In this framework, changes in social identification patterns that may result, for example, from increased income inequality or heightened class or ethnic tensions, lead to pronounced changes in trade policy. We analyse the nature of these policy changes.