1. WHEN IS TRADE PROTECTION GOOD FOR GROWTH?
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MINIER, JENNY and UNEL, BULENT
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COMMERCE , *ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMIC policy , *GROSS domestic product , *COMMERCIAL policy , *ECONOMIC indicators , *COMPARATIVE advantage (International trade) - Abstract
The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisingly fragile, as shown in a number of other papers. We address one possible explanation for these findings: that the relationship is contingent on the pattern of comparative advantage, following the endogenous growth literature. Our findings suggest that such contingencies do in fact exist-in particular, the correlation between tariffs and growth is strong and positive for skill-abundant countries-and are robust to the choice of control variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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