主讲人:
Bo Sun(Associate Professor at the University of Virginia)
参与老师:
(北大经院)刘冲、吴群锋、曹光宇
(北大国发院)李力行、席天扬、徐化愚、于航、王轩、易君健、黄清扬
时间:
2024年6月14日(周五)
11:30-13:00
地点:
北京大学国家发展研究院承泽园131教室
主讲人简介:
Bo Sun is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. She studies economic implications of information frictions and uncertainty, including their effects on contracting design, financial market trading, and macroeconomic activity. Prior to joining UVA Darden, she was a Principal Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
and is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board.
摘要:
We quantify tension between the U.S. and China and examine its economic transmission. We first present a text-based index of U.S.-China tension (UCT) that shows close alignment with the views expressed by business and policy decision makers, both in rhetoric and action. Using our UCT index, we document that elevated tension is associated with reduced U.S. corporate investment—especially for more exposed firms—and reconfiguration of U.S. firm supply chains away from China. U.S.-China tension is also reflected in cross-sectional stock returns, in patterns consistent with investor expectations of deteriorating economic opportunities. These effects predate the 2018 trade disputes. Decomposing our index into a component reflecting concrete actions that directly impede bilateral engagement and a component driven by uncertainty surrounding the trajectory of such frictions, we find that transmission operates primarily through the uncertainty channel, though both are important. Our findings reveal nuanced implications of continued tension: should uncertainty surrounding the relationship subside, even a high-tension, new norm could see contained economic effects.