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Protection for sale in a developing country : democracy vs. dictatorship
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posted on 2002-08-01, 00:00 authored by D Mitra, D Thomakos, Mehmet UlubasogluMehmet UlubasogluFor a "genuine" small open economy that has experienced both dictatorship and democracy, we find support for the predictions of the Grossman-Helpman (1994) "Protection for Sale" model. In contrast to previous studies, we use various protection measures (including tariffs, the direct measure of the theoretical model) and perform both single-year and panel regressions. Using Turkish industry-level data, the government's weight on welfare is estimated to be much larger than that on contributions. More importantly, we find that this weight is generally higher for the democratic regime than for dictatorship.
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Review of economics and statisticsVolume
84Issue
3Pagination
497 - 508Publisher
MIT PressLocation
Cambridge, MAPublisher DOI
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0034-6535Language
engNotes
Posted Online March 13, 2006Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2002, The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUsage metrics
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