Zanardi, Maurizio; Facchini, Giovanni - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2014
This paper shows that electoral incentives deter politicians from supporting trade liberalization. We focus on all … major trade liberalization bills introduced since the early 1970s in the U.S. Congress, in which House and Senate members … are more likely to support trade liberalization than House representatives. However, this result does not hold for the …