The Wide Reach of the @realDonaldTrump: Economic Policy Tweets, Trade Relations, and International Financial Markets

• In Event: Today's Trade System

Brief Overview

We show that Trump’s Mexico-related tweets concerning trade and immigration affect not only Mexican financial markets, they also affect the financial markets of other Latin American nations with similarly deep trade and immigration ties to the US.

Authors

• Allyson L. Benton, City, University of London

• Andrew Quayle Philips, University of Colorado Boulder