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Why "buy American" is a bad idea but politicians still like it
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2010
up with two rationales that help to understand why countries nevertheless consider protectionism to be a good response to … degree of openness and loss aversion of consumers. -- protectionism ; trade liberalization ; short term shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697408
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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation
Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001
In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397792
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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies
Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2001
We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398023
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Exclusive dealing and common agency in international markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2004
This paper investigates the contractual choice between exclusive dealing and common agency in a simple international oligopoly model where products are sold through intermediaries. We find that when trade barriers are high domestic firms tend to adopt exclusive dealing contracts, whereas trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402469
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Private information and optimal infant industry protection
Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Zhang, Yuzhe - 2022
We study infant industry protection using a dynamic model in which the industry's cost is initially higher than that of foreign competitors. The industry can stochastically lower its cost via learning by doing. Whether the industry has transitioned to low cost is private information. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206084
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The interplay of economic, social and political fragmentation
Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2019
This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income disparities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120280
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A global perspective on the incidence of monopoly distortions
Ding, Siying; Lashkaripour, Ahmad; Lugovskyy, Volodymyr - 2024
We develop a method to measure the incidence of monopolistic markup distortions in the global economy. Using semi-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup dispersion, and (2) international...
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Non-tariff barriers and trade liberalization
Anderson, Simon P.; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2000
is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781528
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Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information
Matschke, Xenia; Schöttner, Anja - 2009
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade … optimal strategic trade policy. -- Antidumping duties ; asymmetric information ; trade protection ; strategic trade policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807867
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Anti-dumping, intra-industry trade and quality reversals
Moraga-González, José Luis (contributor);  … - 2004
equilibrium is characterized by unilateral dumping by the foreign firm into the domestic economy. Two instruments of anti-dumping … (AD) policy are examined, namely, a price undertaking (PU) and an anti-dumping duty. We show that, when firms ̕cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002524170