Interest Groups and Trade Policy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780691095974
Subjects: Domestic trade & commerce; International trade; Political control & influence; Pressure groups & lobbying; International - Economics; Commercial policy; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; United States; Business/Economics; Pressure groups; Political Process - General; Economic Conditions; Government & Business; Business & Economics / Economics / International; Economics; Political Science and International Relations
First sentence: Common agency is a multilateral relationship in which several principals simultaneously try to influence the actions of an agent.
Description: "The first three chapters focus on campaign contributions and candidate endorsements--two of the tools that interest groups use in their efforts to influence policy outcomes. The remaining chapters present applications to trade policy issues. Grossman and Helpman demonstrate how the approaches developed in their monograph can shed light on tariff formation in small and large countries, on the conduct of multilateral trade negotiations, and on the viability of bilateral free trade agreements. They also examine the forms that regional and multilateral trade agreements are likely to take and the ways in which firms invest abroad to circumvent trade barriers induced by political pressures"--Publisher's description.