Lobbying for protection by heterogeneous firms

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-32

  Long, Ngo Van ^a,b   Soubeyran, Antoine ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Lobbying; Tariff

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030119927     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0176-2680(95)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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