Mitra, Devashish; Thomakos, Dimitrios; Ulubasoglu, Mehmet - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 39 (2006) 1, pp. 187-210
In the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model of endogenous trade protection, sectoral lobbies try to influence an incumbent government that maximizes a weighted sum of political contributions and aggregate welfare. We empirically investigate this model using U.S. and Turkish data. Our specification...