Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency

By D. Y. Kono. American Political Science Review, 2006

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Protectionism Indices for Non-Tariff Measures: An Application to Maximum Residue Levels (2014, background): “political analysis of Kono (2006) states that politician in more democratic societies tend to be more sensitive to public safety, health and environment.”
Corruption and destructive entrepreneurship (2017, neutral): “Kono (2006) finds that, while conspicuous trade barriers have decreased over time, inconspicuous trade barriers (such as regulations and controls) have increased.”
Citizens, legislators, and executive disclosure: the political determinants of fiscal transparency (2013, background): “However, studies in other policy areas point out that democratically-elected governments can have incentives to limit disclosure (Kono, 2006; Mani & Mukand, 2007; Rejali, 2007).”
Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets (2013, neutral): “Kono (2006) shows that democracy leads to liberalization of trade in wealthier countries but to increased protection in poorer ones.”
Democratization and Economic Globalization (2009, background): “Kono (2006) argues and demonstrates empirically that democracy induces politicians in the developed world to pursue “optimal obfuscation” by replacing transparent trade barriers with more complex, less transparent ones, primarily quality NTBs such as technical barriers to trade and sanitary and…”
Access to Protection: Domestic Institutions and Trade Policy in Democracies (2007, result): “…evidence is drawn from a single year and, given the consistent findings in economics from studies that draw from many years, is probably anomalous+ Kono 2006 also finds that tariffs and NTBs are, to some extent, substitutes: he finds that democracies have lower tariffs but higher NTBs than…”