UCLA Department Economics Associate Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum is featured in a variety of national news stories of late.  Along with co-authors Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale (leave) and World Bank), Patrick Kennedy (UC Berkeley), and Amit Khandelwal (Columbia), their paper “The Return to Protectionism” has been cited by The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The Washington Post,  TIME, and Slate, among other outlets. The paper analyzes the aggregate and regional impacts of the 2018 trade war on the U.S. economy.  Update: 05/16/2019: the paper has also been cited by The Washington Post, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CBS News, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and Financial Times.