Iain Osgood
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Osgood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Osgood |
| SIGNATURE | OSGOOD I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6084-7102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Rapidly innovating firms: Patent lifecycle and support for trade and IP enforcement
The rate of technological innovation and the speed with which old technologies are discarded are fundamental features of industries in the modern economy. How do these factors shape the politics of trade and trade agreements? We describe two potential channels. In one, rapid innovators support trade agreements and trade liberalization because of their privileged competitive position at the cutting edge of innovation. In the other, rapid innovator…
Divided industries, special interest institutions, and trade policy
Climate regulation’s effects on businesses and public support for climate action
How do the effects of climate regulation on businesses impact public attitudes toward climate policy? While emissions intensity is the primary frame for understanding the effects of climate policy on business, theoretical scholarship and public discourse often emphasize that large firms will adjust to climate regulations easily while smaller firms will struggle. Because small businesses are sympathetic and large firms are unpopular, individuals w…
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement
One of the most fundamental economic policy choices a society makes is how to order its global economic relations. What models do states use to structure this multifaceted decision, and how do they choose among these alternatives? We combine data on trade policies, foreign investment, exchange rates, capital flows, and international treaties to discover states’ strategies of global economic engagement. We identify five distinct strategies through…
The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade
Globalization creates winners and losers, and recent research emphasizes that large corporations are among the biggest beneficiaries of trade while smaller firms may be harmed. How do these redistributive effects impact trade attitudes? Because a growing share of Americans hold highly unfavourable views of big corporations, we argue that the belief that large firms win from trade will provoke hostility towards trade and globalization. To test thi…
Home market power and host market protection of foreign investment
How do multinational firms trapped in host markets suffering from political violence find security? Terrorism and conflict repel foreign investment and recent research has sought to understand heterogeneity across firms in their response to violence. When multinational firms are unable to move their investments in the face of violence, we argue that their home governments use diplomatic capacity and security and economic resources to secure prote…
Across the Boards: Explaining Firm Support for Climate Policy
When do corporations stop ignoring or opposing climate action and start to go green? We focus on the role of corporate boards of directors, which shape firms' positions on internal and external issues of corporate governance and public policy. We argue that board decisions to engage constructively on climate issues are likely to be influenced by the choices and experiences of other firms. Learning, socialization, and competitive dynamics are espe…
Representation and reward: The left-wing anti-globalization alliance, contributions, and the congress
Left-wing opposition to globalization lives, among voters and interest groups, both labor and progressive. But have left-wing opponents of trade successfully cultivated representation? Using the US Congress as a case, I show that two distinct groups of Democrats vote in characteristically progressive and protectionist ways on trade bills. These groups, especially progressives, are rewarded with excess campaign contributions from publicly anti-tra…
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition
Populist, protectionist, and progressive opposition to globalization are renascent among voters and politicians, but which of these ideologies have successfully inspired interest group mobilization? To answer this question, we collect original data on thousands of groups’ participation in highly organized coalitions opposed to US trade policy and globalization. Examining the types of groups that compose coalitions, variation in activation across …
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition
Which firms oppose action to fight climate change? Networks of input sourcing and sales to downstream customers ought to propagate and reinforce opposition to decarbonization beyond direct emitters of CO2. To test this claim, we build the largest data set of public political activity for and against climate action in the United States, revealing that the majority of corporate opposition to climate action comes from outside the highest‐emitting in…
Nowhere to Go: FDI, Terror, and Market-specific Assets
Under what circumstances does terrorism repel foreign investment? The negative effect of terrorism on foreign investment identified in current scholarship masks heterogeneity across host markets and industries. Foreign investment ought to react less to political violence when host markets match firms’ input requirements, when firms lack viable alternative hosts, and when assets are immobile across markets. We model the endogenous codetermination …
Firms and Global Value Chains: Identifying Firms’ Multidimensional Trade Preferences
Trade policy has become increasingly multidimensional. Current trade agreements not only address market access but also encompass rules and provisions related to flexibility of commitment, investment protection, and dispute settlement mechanisms. Yet, rigorous evidence about how interest groups evaluate each of these in relation to the others remains scarce. We develop a firm-level theoretical framework to explain how firms’ international operati…
Firms in Trade and Trade Politics
We survey the literature on firms as primary actors in trade politics. In contrast with prevailing approaches, firm-centered models predict that trade internally divides industries and that larger firms are the strongest advocates for globalization. This new preference map alters extant predictions about the dynamics of interest group contestation over trade and suggests revised accounts for how political organization and institutions contribute …
Globalizing the Supply Chain: Firm and Industrial Support for US Trade Agreements
From 1960 to 2000, manufacturing supply chains became global. To what extent has this growth in offshore outsourcing and foreign direct investment affected industrial attitudes toward trade liberalization? Using data on public positions of US firms and trade associations on all free trade agreements since 1990, I show that foreign direct investment (FDI) and input sourcing are theprimarydrivers of support for trade liberalization. Direct import c…
Escape Through Export? Women-Owned Enterprises, Domestic Discrimination, and Global Markets
Does globalization provide an escape from discriminatory legal and social institutions for women-owned enterprises? We develop an original test of this proposition based on a model of firm heterogeneity with discriminatory costs. Discriminatory institutions raise barriers to entry and increase costs of production, allowing only the most productive women-owned firms to survive. If the costs of discrimination are lower in export markets, the averag…
Industrial Fragmentation over Trade: The Role of Variation in Global Engagement
The firms that compose a typical American industry regularly part ways over trade policy, choosing to lobby or publicly comment on their own rather than collectively via their industry association. Emphasizing the importance of firm heterogeneity in global engagement, I consider the role of multinationalization and global sourcing in generating these disagreements. Each of these explanations for industrial fragmentation is supported with evidence…
The Breakdown of Industrial Opposition to Trade: Firms, Product Variety, and Reciprocal Liberalization
This article documents systematic deviations from standard models of trade politics, each of which has the effect of undermining sustained efforts at coherent industrial opposition to trade. Industries have internal disagreements about liberalization, support for trade liberalization extends bilaterally across borders in the same industry, and comparative disadvantage industries feature convincing expressions of public support for liberalization.…
The Charmed Life of Superstar Exporters: Survey Evidence on Firms and Trade Policy
What factors determine firms' attitudes toward trade policy? This paper considers producers' policy preferences and political behavior in light of two key patterns in modern international trade: industries that face import competition often have many exporters, and foreign sales are concentrated in the hands of a small number of "superstar" exporters. Using a new survey of Costa Rican firms matched to systematic firm-level data on export behavior…
The Charmed Life of Superstar Exporters: Survey Evidence on Firms and Trade Policy
What factors determine firms' attitudes toward trade policy? This paper considers producers' policy preferences and political behavior in light of two key patterns in modern international trade: industries that face import competition often have many exporters, and foreign sales are concentrated in the hands of a small number of "superstar" exporters. Using a new survey of Costa Rican firms matched to systematic firm-level data on export behavior…
Firms in Trade and Trade Politics
We survey the literature on firms as primary actors in trade politics. In contrast with prevailing approaches, firm-centered models predict that trade internally divides industries and that larger firms are the strongest advocates for globalization. This new preference map alters extant predictions about the dynamics of interest group contestation over trade and suggests revised accounts for how political organization and institutions contribute …
Globalizing the Supply Chain: Firm and Industrial Support for US Trade Agreements
From 1960 to 2000, manufacturing supply chains became global. To what extent has this growth in offshore outsourcing and foreign direct investment affected industrial attitudes toward trade liberalization? Using data on public positions of US firms and trade associations on all free trade agreements since 1990, I show that foreign direct investment (FDI) and input sourcing are theprimarydrivers of support for trade liberalization. Direct import c…
The Breakdown of Industrial Opposition to Trade: Firms, Product Variety, and Reciprocal Liberalization
This article documents systematic deviations from standard models of trade politics, each of which has the effect of undermining sustained efforts at coherent industrial opposition to trade. Industries have internal disagreements about liberalization, support for trade liberalization extends bilaterally across borders in the same industry, and comparative disadvantage industries feature convincing expressions of public support for liberalization.…
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition
Which firms oppose action to fight climate change? Networks of input sourcing and sales to downstream customers ought to propagate and reinforce opposition to decarbonization beyond direct emitters of CO2. To test this claim, we build the largest data set of public political activity for and against climate action in the United States, revealing that the majority of corporate opposition to climate action comes from outside the highest‐emitting in…
Firms and Global Value Chains: Identifying Firms’ Multidimensional Trade Preferences
Trade policy has become increasingly multidimensional. Current trade agreements not only address market access but also encompass rules and provisions related to flexibility of commitment, investment protection, and dispute settlement mechanisms. Yet, rigorous evidence about how interest groups evaluate each of these in relation to the others remains scarce. We develop a firm-level theoretical framework to explain how firms’ international operati…
Industrial Fragmentation over Trade: The Role of Variation in Global Engagement
The firms that compose a typical American industry regularly part ways over trade policy, choosing to lobby or publicly comment on their own rather than collectively via their industry association. Emphasizing the importance of firm heterogeneity in global engagement, I consider the role of multinationalization and global sourcing in generating these disagreements. Each of these explanations for industrial fragmentation is supported with evidence…
Escape Through Export? Women-Owned Enterprises, Domestic Discrimination, and Global Markets
Does globalization provide an escape from discriminatory legal and social institutions for women-owned enterprises? We develop an original test of this proposition based on a model of firm heterogeneity with discriminatory costs. Discriminatory institutions raise barriers to entry and increase costs of production, allowing only the most productive women-owned firms to survive. If the costs of discrimination are lower in export markets, the averag…
Across the Boards: Explaining Firm Support for Climate Policy
When do corporations stop ignoring or opposing climate action and start to go green? We focus on the role of corporate boards of directors, which shape firms' positions on internal and external issues of corporate governance and public policy. We argue that board decisions to engage constructively on climate issues are likely to be influenced by the choices and experiences of other firms. Learning, socialization, and competitive dynamics are espe…
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition
Populist, protectionist, and progressive opposition to globalization are renascent among voters and politicians, but which of these ideologies have successfully inspired interest group mobilization? To answer this question, we collect original data on thousands of groups’ participation in highly organized coalitions opposed to US trade policy and globalization. Examining the types of groups that compose coalitions, variation in activation across …
Nowhere to Go: FDI, Terror, and Market-specific Assets
Under what circumstances does terrorism repel foreign investment? The negative effect of terrorism on foreign investment identified in current scholarship masks heterogeneity across host markets and industries. Foreign investment ought to react less to political violence when host markets match firms’ input requirements, when firms lack viable alternative hosts, and when assets are immobile across markets. We model the endogenous codetermination …
The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade
Globalization creates winners and losers, and recent research emphasizes that large corporations are among the biggest beneficiaries of trade while smaller firms may be harmed. How do these redistributive effects impact trade attitudes? Because a growing share of Americans hold highly unfavourable views of big corporations, we argue that the belief that large firms win from trade will provoke hostility towards trade and globalization. To test thi…
Home market power and host market protection of foreign investment
How do multinational firms trapped in host markets suffering from political violence find security? Terrorism and conflict repel foreign investment and recent research has sought to understand heterogeneity across firms in their response to violence. When multinational firms are unable to move their investments in the face of violence, we argue that their home governments use diplomatic capacity and security and economic resources to secure prote…
Representation and reward: The left-wing anti-globalization alliance, contributions, and the congress
Left-wing opposition to globalization lives, among voters and interest groups, both labor and progressive. But have left-wing opponents of trade successfully cultivated representation? Using the US Congress as a case, I show that two distinct groups of Democrats vote in characteristically progressive and protectionist ways on trade bills. These groups, especially progressives, are rewarded with excess campaign contributions from publicly anti-tra…
Escape Through Export? Women-Owned Enterprises, Domestic Discrimination, and Global Markets
Does globalization provide an escape from discriminatory legal and social institutions for women-owned enterprises? We develop an original test of this proposition based on a model of firm heterogeneity with discriminatory costs. Discriminatory institutions raise barriers to entry and increase costs of production, allowing only the most productive women-owned firms to survive. If the costs of discrimination are lower in export markets, the averag…
Industrial Fragmentation over Trade: The Role of Variation in Global Engagement
The firms that compose a typical American industry regularly part ways over trade policy, choosing to lobby or publicly comment on their own rather than collectively via their industry association. Emphasizing the importance of firm heterogeneity in global engagement, I consider the role of multinationalization and global sourcing in generating these disagreements. Each of these explanations for industrial fragmentation is supported with evidence…
The Breakdown of Industrial Opposition to Trade: Firms, Product Variety, and Reciprocal Liberalization
This article documents systematic deviations from standard models of trade politics, each of which has the effect of undermining sustained efforts at coherent industrial opposition to trade. Industries have internal disagreements about liberalization, support for trade liberalization extends bilaterally across borders in the same industry, and comparative disadvantage industries feature convincing expressions of public support for liberalization.…
The Charmed Life of Superstar Exporters: Survey Evidence on Firms and Trade Policy
What factors determine firms' attitudes toward trade policy? This paper considers producers' policy preferences and political behavior in light of two key patterns in modern international trade: industries that face import competition often have many exporters, and foreign sales are concentrated in the hands of a small number of "superstar" exporters. Using a new survey of Costa Rican firms matched to systematic firm-level data on export behavior…
Globalizing the Supply Chain: Firm and Industrial Support for US Trade Agreements
From 1960 to 2000, manufacturing supply chains became global. To what extent has this growth in offshore outsourcing and foreign direct investment affected industrial attitudes toward trade liberalization? Using data on public positions of US firms and trade associations on all free trade agreements since 1990, I show that foreign direct investment (FDI) and input sourcing are theprimarydrivers of support for trade liberalization. Direct import c…
Firms and Global Value Chains: Identifying Firms’ Multidimensional Trade Preferences
Trade policy has become increasingly multidimensional. Current trade agreements not only address market access but also encompass rules and provisions related to flexibility of commitment, investment protection, and dispute settlement mechanisms. Yet, rigorous evidence about how interest groups evaluate each of these in relation to the others remains scarce. We develop a firm-level theoretical framework to explain how firms’ international operati…
Firms in Trade and Trade Politics
We survey the literature on firms as primary actors in trade politics. In contrast with prevailing approaches, firm-centered models predict that trade internally divides industries and that larger firms are the strongest advocates for globalization. This new preference map alters extant predictions about the dynamics of interest group contestation over trade and suggests revised accounts for how political organization and institutions contribute …
Nowhere to Go: FDI, Terror, and Market-specific Assets
Under what circumstances does terrorism repel foreign investment? The negative effect of terrorism on foreign investment identified in current scholarship masks heterogeneity across host markets and industries. Foreign investment ought to react less to political violence when host markets match firms’ input requirements, when firms lack viable alternative hosts, and when assets are immobile across markets. We model the endogenous codetermination …
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition
Which firms oppose action to fight climate change? Networks of input sourcing and sales to downstream customers ought to propagate and reinforce opposition to decarbonization beyond direct emitters of CO2. To test this claim, we build the largest data set of public political activity for and against climate action in the United States, revealing that the majority of corporate opposition to climate action comes from outside the highest‐emitting in…
Representation and reward: The left-wing anti-globalization alliance, contributions, and the congress
Left-wing opposition to globalization lives, among voters and interest groups, both labor and progressive. But have left-wing opponents of trade successfully cultivated representation? Using the US Congress as a case, I show that two distinct groups of Democrats vote in characteristically progressive and protectionist ways on trade bills. These groups, especially progressives, are rewarded with excess campaign contributions from publicly anti-tra…
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition
Populist, protectionist, and progressive opposition to globalization are renascent among voters and politicians, but which of these ideologies have successfully inspired interest group mobilization? To answer this question, we collect original data on thousands of groups’ participation in highly organized coalitions opposed to US trade policy and globalization. Examining the types of groups that compose coalitions, variation in activation across …
Home market power and host market protection of foreign investment
How do multinational firms trapped in host markets suffering from political violence find security? Terrorism and conflict repel foreign investment and recent research has sought to understand heterogeneity across firms in their response to violence. When multinational firms are unable to move their investments in the face of violence, we argue that their home governments use diplomatic capacity and security and economic resources to secure prote…
Across the Boards: Explaining Firm Support for Climate Policy
When do corporations stop ignoring or opposing climate action and start to go green? We focus on the role of corporate boards of directors, which shape firms' positions on internal and external issues of corporate governance and public policy. We argue that board decisions to engage constructively on climate issues are likely to be influenced by the choices and experiences of other firms. Learning, socialization, and competitive dynamics are espe…
Democracy and Clustered Models of Global Economic Engagement
One of the most fundamental economic policy choices a society makes is how to order its global economic relations. What models do states use to structure this multifaceted decision, and how do they choose among these alternatives? We combine data on trade policies, foreign investment, exchange rates, capital flows, and international treaties to discover states’ strategies of global economic engagement. We identify five distinct strategies through…
The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade
Globalization creates winners and losers, and recent research emphasizes that large corporations are among the biggest beneficiaries of trade while smaller firms may be harmed. How do these redistributive effects impact trade attitudes? Because a growing share of Americans hold highly unfavourable views of big corporations, we argue that the belief that large firms win from trade will provoke hostility towards trade and globalization. To test thi…
Rapidly innovating firms: Patent lifecycle and support for trade and IP enforcement
The rate of technological innovation and the speed with which old technologies are discarded are fundamental features of industries in the modern economy. How do these factors shape the politics of trade and trade agreements? We describe two potential channels. In one, rapid innovators support trade agreements and trade liberalization because of their privileged competitive position at the cutting edge of innovation. In the other, rapid innovator…
Divided industries, special interest institutions, and trade policy
Climate regulation’s effects on businesses and public support for climate action
How do the effects of climate regulation on businesses impact public attitudes toward climate policy? While emissions intensity is the primary frame for understanding the effects of climate policy on business, theoretical scholarship and public discourse often emphasize that large firms will adjust to climate regulations easily while smaller firms will struggle. Because small businesses are sympathetic and large firms are unpopular, individuals w…
Economics (15 works) · International trade (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Global trade and economics (9 works) · International economics (8 works) · Market economy (8 works) · Globalization (7 works) · Trade barrier (7 works)