We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of "distinct national markets" linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …

This paper presents a new theory of trade policy-making based on the possibility of social conflict, and determines the … ruling elite and workers over trade policy, the theorem implies that workers may have an incentive to mount a revolution …. However, this also implies that the elite can use trade policy to make concessions to the workers and hence avert a revolution …

threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world …

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of distinct national markets linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … by studying the endogenous interaction between the form of government and trade policy. The paper’s second contribution … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting, emphasizing the relationship of trade … general equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, the relationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade … gains and losses, the implications of "distinct national markets" linked through trade (the starting point for all trade …

threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world …

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to … equilibrium distributional effects of competition policy, therelationship of national competition policy to terms-of-trade gains … and losses,the implications of "distinct national markets" linked through trade (thestarting point for all trade theorists …

threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … by studying the endogenous interaction between the form of government and trade policy. The paper’s second contribution … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …