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Gawande, Kishore - 2005

investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … with lobbying competition. Importantly, accounting for lobbying competition also alters substantially estimates of the …

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Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy : An Interest-Group Approach

Krishna, Pravin - 2003

Using the menu-auction approach to endogenous determination of tariffs and allowing additionally for lobby formation itself to be endogenous, this paper analyzes the impact of unilateral trade liberalization by one country on its partner's trade policies. We find that such unilateral...

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Competition and Political Organization : Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?

Bombardini, Matilde - 2009

This paper employs a novel data set on lobbying expenditures to measure the degree of within-sector political … organization and to explore the determinants of the mode of lobbying and political organization across U.S. industries. The data …

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Industry or Class Cleavages over Trade Policy? Evidence from the BritishGeneral Election of 1923

Irwin, Douglas A. - 1995

Economists and political scientists have frequently attempted to determine whether trade policy-related political action takes place along factor-lines (such as capital versus labor, as implied by the Stolper-Samuelson theorem) or along industry-lines (as implied by models with imperfect factor...

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Protection For Sale

Grossman, Gene M. - 1992

We develop a model in which special interest groups make political contributions in order to influence an incumbent government's choice of trade policy. In the political equilibrium. the interest groups bid for protection, and each group's offer is optimal given the offers of the others. The...

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Lessons from U.S.-China Trade Relations

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …

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Horses for Courses : Measuring Foreign Supply Chain Exposure

Baldwin, Richard E.; Freeman, Rebecca; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Perceptions of global supply chains (GSCs) have shifted in recent years from a positive to a more cautious view. Standard GSC measures have mostly not adapted to this change as they focus on participation in, rather than exposure to, foreign supply chains. This paper presents the tools necessary...

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Exploring European Regional Trade

Santamaría, Marta A.; Ventura, Jaume; Yeşilbayraktar, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use the new dataset of trade flows across 269 European regions in 24 countries constructed in Santamaría et al. (2020) to systematically explore for the first time trade patterns within and across country borders. We focus on the differences between home trade, country trade and foreign...

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Political Pressure Deflection

Anderson, James E. - 2004

Much economic policy is deliberately shifted away from direct political processes to administrative processes --- political pressure deflection. Pressure deflection poses a puzzle to standard political economy models which suggest that having policies to `sell' is valuable to politicians. The...

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Foreign Lobbies and US Trade Policy

Gawande, Kishore - 2004

In popular discussion much has been made recently of the susceptibility of government policies to lobbying by … fact be harmful: If the policy outcome absent any lobbying by foreigners is characterized by welfare-reducing trade … barriers, lobbying by foreigners may result in reductions in such barriers and raise consumer surplus (and possibly improve …

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