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Endogenous Trade Protection and Exchange Rate Adjustment

Auray, Stéphane - 2019

This paper explores the relationship between exchange rate adjustment and trade policy in a simple New Keynesian open economy macro model. We show that movement in exchange rates have a direct implication for trade policy when governments choose tariffs endogenously. In particular, we show that...

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Self-Harming Trade Policy? Protectionism and Production Networks

Barattieri, Alessandro - 2020

Using monthly data on temporary trade barriers (TTBs), we estimate the dynamic employment effects of protectionism … movements in protectionism exogenous to economic fundamentals. We then use input-output tables to construct measures of … protectionism affecting downstream producers. Finally, we estimate panel local projections using the identified trade-policy shocks …

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Populism, Protectionism, and Political Instability

Daun, Tyler; Galiani, Sebastián; Torrens, Gustavo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Most populist regimes in Latin American countries used trade policy to redistribute income, despite being less efficient than other redistribution schemes such as transfers financed with an income tax. Often, this outcome is attributed to the lack of fiscal capacity in Latin American countries....

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New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences

Blonigen, Bruce - 2008

This paper revisits the issue of people's preferences for international trade protection examining survey data from the American National Election Studies. I first show that both an individual's skills and the international trade characteristics of their employment industry affects their trade...

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A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model

Imai, Susumu - 2008

This paper proposes a new test of the Protection for Sale (PFS) model by Grossman and Helpman (1994). Unlike existing methods in the literature, our approach does not require any data on political organizations. We formally show that the PFS model predicts that the quantile regression of the...

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Would Protectionism Defuse Global Imbalances and Spur Economic Activity? A Scenario Analysis

Faruqee, Hamid - 2006

In the evolving debate and analysis of global imbalances, a commonly overlooked issue pertains to rising protectionism …

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Antebellum Tariff Politics : Coalition Formation and Shifting Regional Interests

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2006

Throughout U.S. history, import tariffs have been put on a sustained downward path in only two instances: from the early-1830s until the Civil War and from the mid-1930s to the present. This paper analyzes how the movement toward higher tariffs in the 1820s was reversed for the rest of the...

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A Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics

Grossman, Gene M. - 2004

We develop a novel model of campaigns, elections, and policymaking in which the ex ante objectives of national party leaders differ from the ex post objectives of elected legislators. This generates a distinction between "policy rhetoric" and "policy reality" and introduces an important role for...

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Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Reforms with Majority Voting

Krishna, Pravin - 2004

This paper shows how unilateral liberalization in one country can increase the voting support for reciprocal reduction in trade barriers in a partner country. When trade policies are determined simultaneously in the two countries, we show the possibility of multiple political equilibria -...

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Labor Versus Capital in Trade-Policy Determination : The Role of General-Interest and Special-Interest Politics

Dutt, Pushan - 2003

Trade policy depends on the extent to which the government wants to redistribute income as well as on a country's overall factor endowments and their distribution. While the government's desire to redistribute income itself is dependent on asset distribution, it is to a large extent also driven...

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