This paper has two aims. A specific goal is to examine the determinants of protection policy in Turkey. A second, broader goal is to test the recent insights of the political economy models of trade policy and assess their contribution to the empirical investigation of associations between...

This paper develops a rational expectations life-cycle model designed as a framework for the cross-country analysis of (private) saving decisions. It is shown that a broad range of life-cycle models that have been used in the literature to study aggregate time series on consumption and saving...