Las tarifas endógenas en un modelo de agencia común: Un nuevo enfoque empírico aplicado a la India

Autores/as

  • Olivier Cadot HEC Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland). Centre d'études et de Recherches sur le Développement International (Clermont Ferrand, France). Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England)
  • Laure Dutoit United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago, Chile)
  • Jean-Marie Grether Universite de Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
  • Marcelo Olarreaga University of Geneva (Geneve, Switzerland). Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55444/2451.7321.2013.v51.n1.11875

Palabras clave:

India, economía política, protección

Resumen

En este trabajo se propone un nuevo método para testear el modelo de Grossman-Helpman sobre protección endógena y la formación de grupos de interés (lobbies), que no requiere de datos respecto a la formación de los grupos de interés o de sus contribuciones. Identifica a las industrias políticamente organizadas a partir de datos de producción y comercio que son de acceso común, así como las estimaciones de los parámetros estructurales del modelo. Aplicado a la India, produce resultados que son cualitativamente consistentes con las predicciones del modelo, y que parecen cuantitativamente más plausibles que las estimaciones para los EE.UU obtenidas por métodos alternativos. Nuestras estimaciones implican que la importancia que el gobierno de la India asigna a las contribuciones de los sectores políticamente organizados es una tercera parte de la importancia que le asigna al bienestar social (bruto), muy por encima de las estimaciones existentes para los Estados Unidos.

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Las tarifas endógenas en un modelo de agencia común: Un nuevo enfoque empírico aplicado a la India. (2013). Revista De Economía Y Estadística, 51(1), 25-52. https://doi.org/10.55444/2451.7321.2013.v51.n1.11875