| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w28171
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 28171
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| Natural Barriers and Policy Barriers |
| Yang Jiao; Shang-Jin Wei
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| 发表日期 | 2020-12-07
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper investigates whether "natural" trade barriers of a country due to geography and other factors outside the country's control stimulate more or less policy barriers such as tariffs. Our theory predicts that the politician's relative weight on private benefits over social welfare in a "protection-for-sale" setup depends on these "natural" features. The key mechanism is that a society's willingness to invest in improving institutions that constrain rent-seeking behavior is influenced by the natural barriers. Two types of empirical evidence support the theoretical predictions. First, "natural" barriers beget policy barriers - countries with more "natural" barriers tend to have higher tariffs and more NTBs. Second, liberalization begets liberalization - in response to unilateral trade reforms in China in the early 2000s, those other countries that benefit more from the Chinese liberalization also undertake more liberalization of their own. |
| 主题 | International Economics
; Trade
; Development and Growth
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28171
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585845
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Yang Jiao,Shang-Jin Wei. Natural Barriers and Policy Barriers. 2020.
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