1. Where Do Losers Lose the Least? Regime Type and the Unequal Gains from Trade Lauren Allen & Sylvia Cesar

2. As a country opens its economy to trade, will income inequality be ameliorated? Do these effects depend on regime type?

3. Hypothesis: democracies are better at redistributing the losses and gains from trade

4. Trade & Inequality ●Heckscher-Ohlin Model ○Stolper-Samuelson effect ●Ambiguous effects

5. Democracy & Inequality ●Governments’ incentives and staying in power ●Median voter ●Government Ideology

6. Methodology Income distribution SWIID Gini coefficient (post-tax)

7. Methodology ●Economic Globalization ○Axel Dreher 2006 ●Regime Type ○DD Dichotomous indicator (1-0)

11. Conclusion ●Regime type and inequality ●Regime type and welfare ●Malapportionment and welfare

12. Further Research ●Robust testing: Country Fixed Effects ●Theory: ○Autocracies’ incentives to provide welfare