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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Päätekijä: Mishra, Prachi
Muut tekijät: Ludema, Rodney D., Mayda, Anna Maria
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/211
Linkit:Full text available on IMF