Konferenzbeitrag
Understanding Free Trade Attitudes: Evidence from Europe
Our paper contributes by demonstrating that public opinion on open-market policies is mainly shaped by ideology rather than by rational considerations and economic self-interest. Exploiting data on attitudes towards TTIP, Free Trade, Protectionism, and Globalization from the Eurobarometer, a comprehensive biannual survey across EU citizens, we find that individual preferences towards different trade policies can hardly be explained by variables that typically determine personal advantages of trade liberalization. Nevertheless, rational considerations follow expected patterns but are not overly relevant. Rather, we find trust variables and country-fixed-effects being predominant drivers of individual open-market attitudes. Our data also allow for a spatial analysis at the European NUTS-2 level. Performing a cross-country analysis, we find a causal relation between anti-Americanism and national TTIP approval rates. Macroeconomic performance variables contribute only to a minor extent in shaping regional and national preferences.
- Sprache
-
Englisch
- Erschienen in
-
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2018: Digitale Wirtschaft - Session: International Trade V ; No. D18-V1
- Klassifikation
-
Wirtschaft
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
International Agreements and Observance; International Organizations
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Policy
- Thema
-
International Political Economy
Free Trade Attitudes
TTIP
- Ereignis
-
Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
-
Braml, Martin
Felbermayr, Gabriel
- Ereignis
-
Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
-
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
- (wo)
-
Kiel, Hamburg
- (wann)
-
2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
-
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
Datenpartner
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
Objekttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Braml, Martin
- Felbermayr, Gabriel
- ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Entstanden
- 2018
Ähnliche Objekte (12)
Understanding free trade attitudes: Evidence from Europe
Transatlantic Free Trade: Questions and Answers from the Vantage Point of Trade Theory
Market Size Effects in New New Trade Theory
Does trade cause divergence? Dynamic panel data evidence
Free Trade from Lisbon to Vladivostok: Who Gains, Who Loses from a Eurasian Trade Agreement?
European trade policy at the service of geopolitics? Requirements for new instruments from the perspective of family businesses
On current account discrepancies, tariff retaliation, and the political economy of free trade
Free Trade Agreements, Customs Unions In Disguise?
Cultural proximity and trade
The US-China trade deal: How the EU and WTO lose from managed trade
Kyoto and the carbon content of trade
Kyoto and the carbon content of trade
Understanding free trade attitudes: Evidence from Europe
Transatlantic Free Trade: Questions and Answers from the Vantage Point of Trade Theory
Market Size Effects in New New Trade Theory
Does trade cause divergence? Dynamic panel data evidence
Free Trade from Lisbon to Vladivostok: Who Gains, Who Loses from a Eurasian Trade Agreement?
European trade policy at the service of geopolitics? Requirements for new instruments from the perspective of family businesses
On current account discrepancies, tariff retaliation, and the political economy of free trade
Free Trade Agreements, Customs Unions In Disguise?
Cultural proximity and trade
The US-China trade deal: How the EU and WTO lose from managed trade
Kyoto and the carbon content of trade
Kyoto and the carbon content of trade
Understanding free trade attitudes: Evidence from Europe
Transatlantic Free Trade: Questions and Answers from the Vantage Point of Trade Theory
Market Size Effects in New New Trade Theory
Does trade cause divergence? Dynamic panel data evidence
Free Trade from Lisbon to Vladivostok: Who Gains, Who Loses from a Eurasian Trade Agreement?
European trade policy at the service of geopolitics? Requirements for new instruments from the perspective of family businesses
On current account discrepancies, tariff retaliation, and the political economy of free trade
Free Trade Agreements, Customs Unions In Disguise?
Cultural proximity and trade
The US-China trade deal: How the EU and WTO lose from managed trade
Kyoto and the carbon content of trade