Political Economy of Protectionism

保护主义的政治经济学

• 批准号: 22530252
• 负责人: KAGITANI Koichi
• 金额: $ 1.66万
• 依托单位: Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (2012)Himeji Dokkyo University (2010-2011)
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2010 至 2012
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22530252/
• 关键词: 貿易政策; 保護主義; 政治経済学; 保護貿易政策

We investigate three topics about protectionism, using the Japan’s first safeguard actions in 2001 as acase example for our study to get a better understanding about protectionism. First, we examines what kind of factors can raise demands for import protection in local regions, from theoretical and empirical aspects, and finds that the number of safeguard petitions from local assemblies was strongly affected by some local political factors. Second, we examine theoretically the effect of media coverage on the influence peddling politics of a trade policy, and show that if voters who buys a newspaper to get information about the trade policy prefer the articles whose contents stand for their interests rather than the articles whose contents are adverse to their intere sts, the media coverage about the trade policy will be biased and can influence voters’ political support and politicians’ actions for the trade policy. Third,we show from theoretical and empirical aspects that the threat of invoking a safeguard measure on a politically sensitive good can induce a disruptive exporter of the good to voluntarily restrict its export volume, even though the WTO rule explicitly prohibits voluntary export restraints.

本文以日本2001年第一次保障措施为例，探讨了与贸易保护主义有关的三个问题，以加深对贸易保护主义的理解。首先，我们从理论和实证两个方面考察了什么样的因素会引起地方的进口保护需求，发现地方议会的保障请求数量受到一些地方政治因素的强烈影响。其次，我们从理论上考察了媒体报道对贸易政策影响力兜售政治的影响，并表明，如果选民购买报纸以获得有关贸易政策的信息，那么他们更喜欢内容代表他们利益的文章，而不是内容不利于他们利益的文章，媒体对贸易政策的报道会有偏见，会影响选民对贸易政策的政治支持和政治家对贸易政策的行动。第三，我们从理论和实证方面表明，援引保障措施的政治敏感的商品的威胁，可以诱导破坏性的出口商的货物，自愿限制其出口量，即使WTO规则明确禁止自愿出口限制。

项目成果

Political Economy of Safeguards and VERs - The case of Japan-China vegetable trade-

保障措施和VERs的政治经济学 - 以日中蔬菜贸易为例-

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Kong Weng Ho;Zhiwei Cen;Kota Sugahara,Tadashi Fukui;and Junko Doi;岑智偉(研究代表者);Doi Junko;鎰谷宏一
• 通讯作者: 鎰谷宏一

Political Economy of Safeguards and VERs-The case of Japan-China vegetable trade-

保障措施与VERs的政治经济学-日中蔬菜贸易案例-

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: 鎰谷宏一