ENDOGENOUS TRADE POLICY: A TIME-SERIES APPROACH
This paper provides a time-series analysis on the relationship between the extent of endogenous trade policy and both political and economic variables. The chosen trade policy indicator is the number of foreign-trade regulations passed each year for the benefit of a single firm or industry. The data are from Uruguay, 1925-1983. This country, which experienced an impressive economic decline, is an outstanding example of the rent-seeking society. The paper shows that endogenous regulations increased with discretionary policies, with adverse macroeconomic shocks and under dictatorship. It also shows that these regulations had a negative long-run effect on the growth rates of output and exports. The short-run effect was positive however. Copyright 1994 Blackwell Publishers Ltd..
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1994
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Authors: | Rama, MartÃn |
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Economics and Politics. - Wiley Blackwell. - Vol. 6.1994, 3, p. 215-232
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