The Effects of Political Institutions on the Extensive and Intensive Margins of Trade

We present a model of political networks that integrates both the choice of trade partners (the extensive margin) and trade volumes (the intensive margin). Our model predicts that regimes secure in their survival, including democracies as well as some consolidated authoritarian regimes, will trade m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kim, In Song, Londregan, John, Ratkovic, Marc
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127266