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Spurious Injury As Indirect Rent Seeking: Free Trade Under The Prospect Of Protection

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  • Michael P. Leidy
  • Bernard M. Hoekman

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In the literature on directly unproductive profit seeking or rent seeking, intervention‐seeking by labor and industry groups is generally restricted to direct lobbying activity. However, import‐competing producers may have an additional instrument to influence the decision to grant protection. Under well‐established injury criteria for protection import‐competing producers have an incentive, either collectively or individually, to feign injury. To the extent that the free‐rider problem can be overcome, orchestrating the appearance of injury is an intervention‐seeking activity that may be complementary to DUP lobbying. When the established indicators of industry well‐being include variables controlled by the prospective beneficiaries, therefore, free trade under the prospect of protection is potentially accompanied by a concomitant spurious‐injury distortion. Some of the positive and welfare implications of the theory of spurious injury are investigated in both a partial equilibrium framework and in the Heckscher‐Ohlin model.

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  • Michael P. Leidy & Bernard M. Hoekman, 1991. "Spurious Injury As Indirect Rent Seeking: Free Trade Under The Prospect Of Protection," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 3(2), pages 111-137, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecopol:v:3:y:1991:i:2:p:111-137
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.1991.tb00042.x
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