Essays in international trade, political economy of protection and firm heterogeneity

The first two chapters study the effect of foreign lobbies on trade policy of a country which is a member of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). They rely on a monopolistically competitive political economy model in which the government determines external tariffs endogenously. In the first paper the effe...

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Main Author: Stoyanov, Andrey
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1010