tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was …

extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was …

equilibrium models of trade. We follow a dual approach, highlighting how general equilibrium distributional aspects of social … inequality results in trade theory that are focused strictly on functional rather than household inequality. As an application of … for a broad class of models. -- Sen welfare functions ; duality ; political economy of equity …

theoretical representation of production, trade, and consumption, we map a general representation of the real economy to …

In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for …) and the Tariff Function (Findlay and Wellisz, 1982) models are significant at the one percent level. Novel is our … application of a single, unified theoretical framework to take strict interpretations of the three theoretical models to the data …

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …

that time-varying trade barriers may be another channel for market instability. …We develop a simple two-region, cobweb-type dynamic equilibrium model to demonstrate the existence of optimal trade … barriers. A pure comparative statics analysis of our model suggests that a reduction of trade barriers always enhances welfare …

economy models either yield no prediction on the bias of the trade regime, or predict, counterfactually, a bias towards the …Rodrik (1995) notes that trade regimes tend to be biased towards import protection. Meanwhile, the standard political …

inevitably emerges in the market. The problem of free riding in the game, if serious, will lower the lobbying-endogenous tariff …-endogenous tariff decreases social welfare in the game. Notably, welfare-improving trade liberalization occurs if the government removes … the lobbying-endogenous tariff and moves toward free trade …