trade policy

This replication package accompanies an article that asks whether recent across-the-board and country- and sector-specific tariffs introduced in the second Trump administration spell the end of the liberal international trading system. The authors argue against the view that the regime is collapsing, characterizing US trade policy historically as "eclectic"—a mix of protectionist and liberal impulses—and framing the system as resilient and adaptable despite unprecedented recent actions. The replication materials support the article’s historical and comparative claims about continuity and change in US trade policy.

What explains frequent exchange-rate interventions in East Asia? This study asks whether organized export interests prompt policymakers to devalue currencies and presents evidence from Japan and Korea using news-based measures of exporters’ public pressure. The authors build a proxy for exporter lobbying from daily reports in leading financial newspapers and apply machine-learning scaling to trace how industry demands evolve before interventions. Their contribution is a novel measurement strategy linking publicized industry demands to episodes of currency depreciation.

This study examines a novel form of gender-based governmental discrimination: the differential taxation of men’s and women’s apparel products.

Does what other states do influence how much land a country protects? This paper argues that states sit in international "dependence networks"—partners with which they regularly exchange valued goods—and uses those networks to study whether increases in protected land among trade partners and international-organization partners are associated with increases in protected land at the focal state. The contribution is to show international economic and organizational ties as potential pathways of environmental policy influence, comparing their substantive effects to familiar domestic predictors.