A comprehensive empirical investigation is carried out to ascertain the import-reducing effect of trade protection barriers. We first present a statistical summary of the status of global trade protection. Then, based on a monopolistic competition trade model and 1994 cross-country data on trade...

Combining prior theory about really-new products with temporal construal theory, the authors show in four field studies that consumers follow-through less often on positive purchase intentions to buy really-new products relative to intentions to buy incrementally-new products, with the decrement...