Protection for sale or surge protection?
By: Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama, Kala Krishna
Contributors: Krishna, Kala; Katayama, Hajime; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12258; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12258.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "This paper asks whether the results obtained from using the standard approach to testing the influential Grossman and Helpman "protection for sale (PFS)" model of political economy might arise from a simpler setting.  A model of imports and quotas with protection occurring in response to import surges, but only for organized industries, is simulated and shown to provide parameter estimates consistent with the protection for sale framework.  This suggests that the standard approach may be less of a test than previously thought"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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