Policymakers’ horizon and trade reforms: the protectionist effect of elections

This paper shows that electoral incentives deter politicians from supporting trade liber- alization. We focus on all major trade liberalization bills introduced since the early 1970s in the U.S. Congress, in which House and Senate members serve respectively two- and six-year terms and one third of s...

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Main Authors: Conconi, Paola, Facchini, Giovanni, Zanardi, Maurizio
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30483/