Endogenous Lobbying Positions

Abstract

A two-country, two-firm model has been developed to study equilibrium lobbying positions in intra-industry trade. A firm chooses either a protectionist position or a free-trader position. The model predicts that taking the free-trader (protectionist) lobbying position is an efficient (inefficient) firm's dominant strategy. In addition, for any lobbying position taken by a firm, its lobbying effort always decreases as its production cost increases. The findings help shed light on some empirical observations.

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