Mitra, Devashish; Thomakos, Dimitrios D.; Uluba, Mehmet A. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 84 (2002) 3, pp. 497-508
For a "genuine" small open economy that has experienced both dictatorship and democracy, we find support for the predictions of the Grossman-Helpman (1994) "Protection for Sale" model. In contrast to previous studies, we use various protection measures (including tariffs, the direct measure of...