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 …

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 …

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 …

The United States introduced Federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) as part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act to … dampen the adverse impact of increased trade on workers. Applications to receive TAA require approval from the Department of …

We study how the opportunity to trade in trash might influence the equilibrium outcome when the tax on the externality …