The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of
public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been …

Should international trade agreements be extended to include negotiations over
environmental policy? The answer depends on whether countries distort levels of …

After decades of supporting free trade, in 2018 the United States raised import tariffs and
major trade partners retaliated. We analyze the short-run impact of this return to …

We review the literature that links institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
outcomes, focusing in particular on empirical research. Most of the literature has an …

We develop a model in which special-interest groups make political contributions in order to
influence an incumbent government's choice of trade policy. The interest groups bid for …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

Existing political economy models explain the politics of trade policy using inter-industry
differences. However, this article finds that much of the variation in US applied tariff rates in …

We propose a unified theoretical framework within which to interpret and evaluate the
foundational principles of GATT. Working within a general equilibrium trade model, we …

A rent or transfer is politically contestable when policy decisions are subject to influence by
potential beneficiaries and losers. This paper studies contestablility of rents and transfers …

This article provides new evidence on the determinants of individual trade-policy
preferences using individual-level survey data for the United States. There are two main …