Good names beget favors: The impact of country image on trade flows and welfare

• Main Authors: CHANG, Pao-Li, FUJII, Tomoki, JIN, Wei
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• 主題: Country Image; Consumer Preferences; Trade Flows; Quantitative Welfare Analysis; International Economics; Public Economics; Social Welfare
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2517; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3516/viewcontent/pipa_paper.pdf

This paper estimates the effects of time-varying consumer preference bias on trade flows and welfare. We use a unique data set from the BBC World Service Poll, which surveys (annually during 2005–2017 with some gaps) the populations of a wide array of countries on their views of whether an evaluated...