Negotiated Trade Restrictions with Private Political Pressure / Robert C. Feenstra, Tracy R. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feenstra, Robert C.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Lewis, Tracy R.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2374.

NBER working paper series no. w2374

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade regulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1987.

Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1987.

Summary:

In this paper we consider a home government with political pressure to restrict trade, at the expense of foreigners. The foreign country is compensated with an income transfer, which can be thought of as a portion of the tariff revenues or quota rents. In this setting the two countries should negotiate over the level of tariff and transfer of rents, depending on the level of political pressure at home. However, if this pressure cannot be directly observed abroad, then the home country may have an incentive to claim arbitrarily high political need and seek corresponding high trade barriers . We resolve this problem by determining incentive compatible trade policies, in which the home government has no incentive to overstate (or understate) the political pressure for protection.

Notes:

Print version record

September 1987.