UNU-WIDER warmly welcomes you to join the upcoming WIDER Seminar series, Political economy consequences of China’s export slowdown, held on 9 November. The WIDER Seminar Series showcases the latest research on key topics in development economics. It provides a forum for senior and early-career researchers, both inhouse and external, to present recent and ongoing work related to UNU-WIDER’s current work programme.

9 November 2021 | 17:00-18:00 Helsinki time | Register for the event here

WIDER Seminar | Political economy consequences of China’s export slowdown

Can adverse economic shocks influence political outcomes? Campante’s study examines how unpredictable changes to economic variables have an effect on politics in authoritarian regimes in strong states by examining the 2013-2015 export slowdown in China.

About the speaker

Filipe R. Campante is a Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS and Department of Economics. His research looks at what constrains politicians and policy makers beyond formal checks and balances: cultural norms, institutions, media, political protest. Campante’s work has appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, among others.

Register for the event here.

Leeni Varis

Communications Team Assistant

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland

Phone +358 (0)9 615 99257  | Email varis@wider.unu.edu | wider.unu.edu