 | Protection for Free? the Political Economy of U.S. Tariff suspensions Author/Editor: Prachi Mishra, Rodney D Ludema, Anna Maria Mayda. Release Date:September, 2010 This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. We develop a model in which firms influence the more...
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 | Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy? Author/Editor: Prachi Mishra, Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda. Release Date:October, 2008 While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an more...
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 | Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA Author/Editor: Anna Maria Mayda, Chad Steinberg. Release Date:February, 2007 South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the more...
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