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up with two rationales that help to understand why countries nevertheless consider protectionism to be a good response to …) the lobbying of domestic, non-exporting firms. …
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. Protectionism can have many different faces. It can come in the form of Buy-American clauses of stimulus packages, as an increase in …
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In situations where the traditional instruments of trade policy are not available, protection for import-competing industries can be given only indirectly. One of the candidates of giving indirect subsidies is environmental regulation. The competitiveness of a domestic industry can be improved...
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Die traditionellen Handelsmodelle stellen die Vorteile von Freihandel und internationaler Arbeitsteilung dar. Allein große Länder haben die Möglichkeit, durch die Einführung von Zöllen und Quoten ihre terms-of-trade positiv zu beeinflussen. Das ist jedoch nur bei Ausschluß von...
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Since the beginning of the eighties there has been an upsurge in the empirical analysis of the political economy of trade restrictions in industrialized and developing countries. These studies, which have been surveyed by Anderson and Baldwin (1981) and Amelung (1989) attempted to explain the...
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In this paper I test the hypothesis that trade policies leading to higher prices for capital goods have a negative influence on the steady state level and transitional growth rate of per capita GDP. I derive this hypothesis from a modified version of a Solow-Swan model, in which capital variety...
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In den Erklärungsansätzen der strategischen Handelspolitik kann der Einsatz handelspolitischer Instrumente, bei unvollkommener Konkurrenz auf internationalen Märkten, zu gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gewinnen für ein Land führen (vgl. Brander, Spencer, 1983, 1985). Dagegen wird eine Vielzahl von...
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that assuming an endogenous market structure reinforces the economic impacts of lobbying activities compared to the case of ….p. the more likely, the larger the cost differential between the lobbying firm and its high-cost competitors is, and the less …
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Lobbying activities bias the political decision making process. There tend to be deviations from the socially optimal … country does not provide enough. Lobbying activities that tend to increase the supply of this input in the latter country may … of lobbying is not to high. …
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The paper is concerned with effects of lobbying activities by political pressure groups that wish to affect … how environmental quality is affected by lobbying activities and how large the resource waste due to lobbying is. …
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