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Anti-Trade Bias and the Political Economy of Instrument Choice

In: The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

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  • Johan Swinnen

    (University of Leuven)

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Many political economy studies focus on explaining the level of policy intervention, but the explanation of the policy instruments is equally important since the distortionary effects are equally dependent on the choice of the instrument as on the level of the intervention. A stylized fact of agricultural and food policies is the anti-trade bias, the observation that import-competing sectors are often protected while exportable commodities are often taxed. This chapter documents these patterns and provides political economy explanations of the choice of policy instruments.

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  • Johan Swinnen, 2018. "Anti-Trade Bias and the Political Economy of Instrument Choice," Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, in: The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies, chapter 0, pages 87-94, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psachp:978-1-137-50102-8_5
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50102-8_5
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