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Is Protection Really for Sale? A Survey and Directions for Future Research

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Susumu Imai
Hajime Katayama
Kala Krishna

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This paper critically and selectively surveys the literature on protection for sale and discusses directions for future research in this area. It suggests that the standard approach needs to be augmented to provide more compelling tests of this model.

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  3. Kishore Gawande, 1998. "Comparing Theories Of Endogenous Protection: Bayesian Comparison Of Tobit Models Using Gibbs Sampling Output," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 80(1), pages 128-140, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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