private firm. We solve analytically for the Kantian equilibrium of this lobbying game together with the majority voting … more concentrated among the top productivity individuals, their increased lobbying effort generates efficiency as well as …

upsurge of non-tariff trade measures and the remarkable rise in the role of European business lobbies. While these two facts … have been widely recognized by the international trade and the political economy literature, empirical investigation into … of national and international organizations in the European Commission consultations on trade issues and by merging it …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …

policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which incomes depend importantly on trade in dirty goods, where income … interacts with the pollution costs and income benefits of trade in dirty goods to further polarize interests concerning both … environmental stringency and the regulation of trade openness. In this context, we show how the eco-friendliness ranking of …

industries by including “Buy local” clauses into the stimulus package. By analyzing the dynamics of transitory changes of trade … a recession: (i) the lobbying of domestic, non-exporting firms, and (ii) the relationship between vulnerability, the …

allowing for the possibility that policymakers also may be influenced by the rent-seeking (lobbying) behavior of businesses …

of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both … social planner. However, if lobbying is costly, only one sector finds it profitable to offer monetary contribution and direct … resources towards the type of education required by its production. Which sector will engage in lobbying depends on relative …

If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading … partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external …. We argue that the Canadian-US free trade agreement (CUSFTA) provides an ideal policy experiment to link this mechanism to …