Trade Policy and Loss Aversion

We develop a political economy model where loss aversion and reference dependence are important in shaping people's preferences over trade policy. The policy implications of the augmented model differ in three ways: there is a region of compensating protection, where a decline in the world pric...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Freund, Caroline, Ozden, Caglar
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5753