"Protection For Sale" In A Developing Country: Democracy Vs. Dictatorship

Devashish Mitra (), Dimitrios Thomakos and Mehmet A. Ulubaşoglu
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002, vol. 84, issue 3, 497-508

Abstract: For 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. © 2002 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: 2002
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