governments exhibit greater concern for aggregate welfare than others. This government behavior may itself be endogenously … determinants of the differences in government behavior across countries …

-dependent costs are quadratic in qualities, but independent of the quantities produced. The domestic government may impose a minimum …, a sufficiently high minimum quality standard set by the domestic government will enable the domestic firm to induce exit …

This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the … government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on firms' cost reports, accompanied by a threat of auditing and implementing …