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Annika Backes

Annika Backes
Current Position

since 4/20

Economist in the Department of Structural Change and Productivity

Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association

Research Interests
  • political economy
  • education economics

Annika Backes ist seit April 2020 Doktorandin in der Abteilung Strukturwandel und Produktivität. Sie forscht zu den Themen Bildungsökonomik und politische Ökonomie.

Annika Backes studierte an der Universität Leipzig und verbrachte ein Auslandssemester an der Keio University in Tokio, Japan.

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Publications

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Import Shocks and Voting Behavior in Europe Revisited

Annika Backes Steffen Müller

in: European Journal of Political Economy, June 2024

Abstract

We provide first evidence for the long-run causal impact that Chinese imports to European regions had on voting outcomes and revisit earlier estimates of the short-run impact for a methodological reason. The fringes of the political spectrum gained ground many years after the China shock plateaued and, unlike an earlier study by Colantone and Stanig (2018b), we do not find any robust evidence for a short-run effect on far-right votes. Instead, far-left and populist parties gained in the short run. We identify persistent long-run effects of import shocks on voting. These effects are biased towards populism and, to a lesser extent, to the far-right.

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