Protection for Free? : The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff suspensions /

This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. We develop a model in which firms influence the government by transmitting information about the value of protection, via costless messages (cheap-talk)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mishra, Prachi
Other Authors: Ludema, Rodney D., Mayda, Anna Maria
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/211
Online Access:Full text available on IMF