VOTER PREFERENCES FOR TRADE POLICY INSTRUMENTS*

Wolfgang Mayer and Raymond Riezman

Economics and Politics, 1990, vol. 2, issue 3, 259-273

Abstract: We analyze voter preferences for tariffs and production subsidies. The distribution of tax revenues argument shows that voters with high direct tax burdens prefer tariffs to subsidies. The uncertainty argument demonstrates that if actual tariff and subsidy rates are chosen from the set of individually optimal rates then the range of tariff rates is smaller than the range of subsidy rates. Thus, tariffs might be preferred even though they are less efficient. Finally, the large country argument shows that if a country is large then voters whose income shares decline with more protection prefer tariffs to subsidies.

Date: 1990
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