I am co-organizing the 2022 Annual Meeting of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium ( #IATRC ) in Clearwater Beach FL, Dec. 11-13, 2022.

Keynote Speakers: Davin Chor Tuck School, Daria Taglioni World Bank, Tom Reardon MSU AFRE.

Link: iatrc.umn.edu/save-the-date/

Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, and the 2020 US Presidential Election aaea.org/about-aaea/med… Jaerim Choi Economics Department Sunghun Lim LSU AgCenter Wiley Economics American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Dr. Sie Won Kim (Texas Tech Department of Economics) has published a paper in Journal of the AAEA AAEA with his coauthor Sunghun Lim (@LSU) on the expansion of agricultural global value chains (AGVC). Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Key work

Wonderful work, Sunghun Lim and SongYi!

It's always a good day when an advisee gets a paper published.

It's an even better day when *two* advisees get one published together!

The Trump administration allocated rents in exchange for political patronage ahead of the 2020 US election; subsidy payments outweighed Chinese retaliatory tariffs and led to an increase in the Republican vote share.
J Choi Economics Department, Sunghun Lim LSU
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This VoxEU column shows how Trump admin the gave subsidies to US farmers in in exchange for political patronage
#trade Simon J. Evenett Simon Lester Chad P. Bown Beata Javorcik Trade Splaining Podcast Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) TradeExperettes Hanna C. Norberg
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CEPR
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My forthcoming American Journal of Agricultural Economics paper with Jaerim Choi is invited to this VoxEU CEPR column.

'The Political Economy of Trade Protection: Evidence from the 2020 US Presidential Election'

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Forthcoming in the AJAE: 'Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, and the 2020 US Presidential Election,' by Jaerim Choi and Sunghun Lim

Step 1: Create harm.
Step 2: Create rents via redistribution.
Step 3: Distribute rents in targeted fashion.
Step 4: Reap electoral benefits.

I'm truly thrilled with this news! My paper with Sunghun Lim is now forthcoming in the AJAE. Many thanks to all of you provided valuable feedback on the draft.