Thread by @ChadBown

Dear Academic Friends,

In my 10 years as a professor, I struggled to find material on contemporary policy issues for my SYLLABUS.

The speed & novelty of today's policy changes impacting trade make the challenge **YOU** face even greater.

Here is a small attempt to help... 1/🧵

Here are four (IV) papers. Each...
• contains a positive explanation of what happened
• leans heavily (and makes available) data
• admittedly raises more questions than it answers

(though, since the policy issues remain unresolved, perhaps that is a feature, not a bug...) 2/

I. COVID-19 VACCINES: How dozens of companies at nearly 100 geographically distributed sites came together to form supply chains to manufacture billions of doses from Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, and CureVac... 3/

piie.com/publications/w…

I. COVID-19 VACCINES:

(Thread about the paper ... 4/)

https://twitter.com/ChadBown/status/1422890817618915331?s=20

I. COVID-19 VACCINES:

Bown, Chad P. and Thomas J. Bollyky. Forthcoming. How COVID-19 vaccine supply chains emerged in the midst of a pandemic. The World Economy.

(link to published version... 5/)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tw…

II. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT:

Early in the pandemic, a global shortage of hospital gowns, gloves, masks & respirators caused policymakers to panic. This paper examines PPE trade and policy during the crisis, with a focus on China, the EU and US... 6/
piie.com/publications/w…

II. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT:

(Thread about the paper ... 7/)

https://twitter.com/ChadBown/status/1414945008931774467?s=20

II. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT:

Bown, Chad P. Forthcoming. How COVID-19 medical supply shortages led to extraordinary trade and industrial policy. Asian Economic Policy Review.

(link to published version ... 8/)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ae…

III. US-CHINA TRADE WAR & PHASE ONE AGREEMENT

The Trump administration changed US trade policy toward China in ways that will take years for researchers to sort out. This paper makes four specific contributions to that research agenda... 9/
piie.com/publications/w…

III. US-CHINA TRADE WAR & PHASE ONE AGREEMENT

(Thread about the paper ... 10/)

https://twitter.com/ChadBown/status/1365030552269688838?s=20

III. US-CHINA TRADE WAR & PHASE ONE AGREEMENT

Bown, Chad P., "The US-China Trade War and Phase One Agreement," Journal of Policy Modeling v43, n4 (July–August 2021): 805-843.

(link to published version... 11/)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

III. US-CHINA TRADE WAR & PHASE ONE AGREEMENT

Reminder about our @PIIE Trade War Timeline... 12/
piie.com/blogs/trade-in…

III. US-CHINA TRADE WAR & PHASE ONE AGREEMENT

Will China get close to $200 billion?

Reminder about our @PIIE US-China Phase One Tracker (updated monthly)... 13/
piie.com/research/piie-…

III. US-CHINA TRADE WAR & PHASE ONE AGREEMENT

Reminder about our @PIIE US-China Trade War Tariffs chart... 14/
piie.com/research/piie-…

IV. SEMICONDUCTORS:

The US-China trade war forced a reluctant chip industry into someone else’s fight. This paper describes how the political economy of the global semiconductor industry evolved since the 1980s, and what happened in 2018-20... 15/
piie.com/publications/w…

IV. SEMICONDUCTORS:

(Thread about the paper ... 16/)

https://twitter.com/ChadBown/status/1340321706985074690?s=20

IV. SEMICONDUCTORS:

Bown, Chad P., "How the United States marched the semiconductor industry into its trade war with China," East Asian Economic Review v24, n4 (December 2020): 349-388.

(link to published version 17/)
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GOOD LUCK in your fall semester courses, especially during these challenging times.

The students are lucky to have you and do appreciate all of your hard work.

If anything else from me would be useful, don't hesitate to get in touch. ENDS /