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SUMMARY:Identity Politics and Trade Policy - Professor Elhanan Helpman - G
 alen L. Stone Professor of International Trade\, Harvard University
DTSTART:20190305T173000Z
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CONTACT:Clare Kitcat
DESCRIPTION:We characterize trade policies that result from political comp
 etition when assessments of well- being include both material and psychoso
 cial components. The material component reflects\, as usual\, satisfaction
  from consumption. Borrowing from social identity theory\, we take the psy
 chosocial component as combining the pride and self-esteem an individual d
 raws 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 r
 esult\, for example\, from increased income inequality or heightened racia
 l and ethnic tensions\, lead to pronounced changes in trade policy. We ana
 lyze the nature of these policy changes.\n\nThe lecture will be based on a
  paper with the same title\, joint with Gene Grossman from Princeton Unive
 rsity\n
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Theatre\, Christ's College
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