American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2015, 7(2): 294–325
The Economics of Nationalism
By Xiaohuan Lan
China Center for Economic Studies, and Research Institute of Chinese Economy, Fudan University
Ben G. Li
Department of Economics, Boston College
This paper provides an economic framework
for examining how economic openness affects nationalism. Within a country, a
region’s level of nationalism varies according to its economic interests in its
domestic market relative to its foreign market. All else being equal, increasing
a region’s foreign trade reduces its economic interests in its domestic market
and thus weakens its nationalism。This prediction holds both cross-sectionally and over time, as
evidenced by our empirical study using the Chinese Political Compass data and the
World Value Surveys. Our framework also applies to analysis of nationalism
across countries and receives support from cross-country
data.
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