Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/287751 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IWH Discussion Papers No. 8/2024
Publisher: 
Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
We provide first evidence for the long-run causal impact that Chinese imports to European regions had on voting outcomes and revisit earlier estimates of the short-run impact for a methodological reason. The fringes of the political spectrum gained ground many years after the China shock plateaued and, unlike an earlier study by Colantone and Stanig (2018b), we do not find any robust evidence for a short-run effect on far-right votes. Instead, far-left and populist parties gained in the short run. We identify persistent long-run effects of import shocks on voting. These effects are biased towards populism and, to a lesser extent, to the far-right.
Subjects: 
globalization
import shocks
populism
voting behavior
JEL: 
D72
F6
J2
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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