gawande, kishore; Krishna, Pravin; Olarreaga, Marcelo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper … investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … theoretical structure underlying the empirical analysis is the well-known Grossman-Helpman model of trade policy determination …