title: Geoeconomic Pressure
abstract: Geoeconomic pressure-the use of existing economic relationships by governments to achieve geopolitical or economic goals-is a prominent feature of global power dynamics.This paper introduces a methodology using large language models (LLMs) to systematically identify the application of and response to geoeconomic pressure from large textual corpora.We classify which governments apply pressure to which foreign targets, using which instruments, firms, and products.We demonstrate that firms affected
journal: National Bureau of Economic Research