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Article: Studies from York University yield new data on international economics.
- Article from:
- Economics Week
- Article date:
- March 13, 2009
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"This paper studies the effect of foreign lobbies on trade policy of a country which is a member of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It uses a monopolistically competitive political economy model in which the government determines external tariffs endogenously," researchers in Toronto, Canada report.
"The effect of foreign lobbying under the FTA is examined empirically using Canadian industry-level trade data that allow differentiating of lobby groups by the country of origin. The analysis suggests that the presence of foreign lobbying has a significant effect on the domestic trade policy," wrote A. Stoyanov and colleagues, York University.
The researchers ...