Authors: DongHun Kim
Publish Date: 2009/08/04
Volume: 143, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 49-65
Abstract
This article examines the factors that lead governments to open up their public procurement markets to international competition with a particular emphasis on the effect of intraindustry trade Contrary to the conventional notion that intraindustry trade entails less political pressure for protectionism than interindustry trade I argue that such notion does not prevail in the case of discriminatory public procurement Firms in a market with a high degree of intraindustry trade are more likely to resist the removal of discrimination than would firms in a market with a high degree of interindustry trade Empirically I find support for the argument both at subnational and crossnational settings
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