Journal article
Voter Preferences For Trade Policy Instruments
Economics and politics, Vol.2(3), pp.259-273
11/1990
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.1990.tb00033.x
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Voter Preferences For Trade Policy Instruments
- Creators
- Wolfgang Mayer - University of CincinnatiRaymond Riezman - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Economics and politics, Vol.2(3), pp.259-273
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1468-0343.1990.tb00033.x
- ISSN
- 0954-1985
- eISSN
- 1468-0343
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1990
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984963116602771
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