Publication Type
Conference Paper
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
8-2007
Abstract
This paper proposes a general empirical framework to estimate the protection-for-sale model, where the protection regime shifts according to a sector's market structure (perfectly or monop-olistically competitive). We base the protection structure on Grossman and Helpman (1994) for the subset of perfectly competitive sectors and on Chang (2005) for the subset of monop- olistically competitive sectors. The two protection regimes are simultaneously estimated with joint constraints. The results of the J-test consistently reject the homogeneous (perfect compe- tition) protection-for-sale model often adopted in previous literature and suggest a direction of improvement toward the proposed heterogeneous protection structure model.
Keywords
endogenous trade policy, campaign contribution, monopolistic competition, intrain- dustry trade, import penetration
Discipline
International Economics
Research Areas
International Economics
Publication
Empirical Investigations in International Economics
Citation
CHANG, Pao Li.
Protection for Sale under Monopolistic Competition: An Empirical Investigation. (2007). Empirical Investigations in International Economics.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1085
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