) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent … the other. Areas ripe for more exploration include informational lobbying, the role of the media, firm-level analysis of … lobbying and more realistic approaches to labor markets. …

Are retaliatiory tariffs politically targeted and, if so, are they effective? Do countries designing a retaliation …

-Ohlin and Ricardo-Viner frameworks. In addition, we can separate the efficiency and equity effects of tariffs on welfare. We …

just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …

This paper provides a simple model that highlights the political substitutability between import tariffs and production … sector induce the government to set inefficiently high tariffs and subsidies. If the government commits the tariff to a lower … equilibrium obtain) a larger production subsidy. This political substitutability between tariffs and subsidies is shown to reduce …