We study the influence of trade exposed producer lobby groups on national climate policies and the formation of a … emissions from commodity production with carbon taxes. The commodity is traded on a perfectly competitive international market …

Previous studies have recognized that campaign contributions and lobbies affect trade policy. However, whether or not … trade policy affects electoral outcome is far less discussed. This paper thus introduces a theoretical framework to explain … how trade platform could affect the vote pattern. Motivated by this, we then estimate such an effect using election data …

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 …

This paper explains why trade liberalizations occur in developing countries, and why they are often reversed. It does … quality upgrades to keep up with foreign competitors. Given the availability of a political market for import tariffs … lobbying effort over time, and on their implications for the timing and the time horizon of trade reforms in developing …

perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic …

of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …

gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes the literature on trends and fluctuations in market distortions … the extent of market distortions and the conditions under which refirm may be feasible. …