Maggi, Giovanni; Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 5, pp. 1135-1155
The Grossman-Helpman "Protection for Sale" model, concerning the political economy of trade protection, yields clear predictions for the cross-sectional structure of import barriers. Our objective is to check whether the predictions of the Grossman-Helpman model are consistent with the data and,...