TY  - JOUR
AU  - Imai,Susumu
AU  - Katayama,Hajime
AU  - Krishna,Kala
TI  - Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12258
PY  - 2006
Y2  - May 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12258
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12258.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Susumu Imai
Department of Economics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
E-Mail: imais@econ.queensu.ca

Hajime Katayama
Department of Economics
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
E-Mail: h.katayama@econ.usyd.edu.au

Kala Krishna
Department of Economics
523 Kern Graduate Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814/865-1106
Fax: 814/863-4775
E-Mail: kmk4@psu.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-05-29
AB  - This paper asks whether the results obtained from using the standard approach to testing the influential Grossman and Helpman %u201Cprotection for sale (PFS)%u201D model of political economy might arise from a simpler setting. A model of imports and quotas with protection occurring in response to import surges, but only for organized industries, is simulated and shown to provide parameter estimates consistent with the protection for sale framework. This suggests that the standard approach may be less of a test than previously thought.
ER  -