PROTECTION FOR RENT: NATIONAL SUBSIDIES AND EUROPE’S ECONOMY Nikolaos Zahariadis Department of Government University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham.

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PROTECTION FOR RENT: NATIONAL SUBSIDIES AND EUROPE’S ECONOMY Nikolaos Zahariadis Department of Government University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham AL

Research Question Why is there still so much protectionism in light of political rhetoric extolling the virtues of free trade, favorable economic theory, and legal pressure to dismantle protectionist measures?

The Asset Influence Model of Subsidy Protection The asset influence model expands Grossman and Helpman’s (1994) political contribution model. Four factors are important: globalization asset specificity political power institutional access

Equation SUBSIDY i,t = a + b1ASSET i,t-1 + b2GLOBALIZATION i,t-1 + b3INSTITUTION i,t + b4POLITICAL POWER i,t-1 + b5GLOBALIZATION*ASSET + b6GLOBALIZATION*INSTITUTION + u where a is the constant term, i is country and t is year. SUBSIDY refers to amount of subsidies. ASSET refers to asset specificity, measured as coefficient of variation in wage costs and profits. GLOBALIZATION contains three indicators: trade openness, measured percent trade in goods over GDP; FDI openness is percent total FDI (incoming and outgoing) over GDP; and portfolio openness is percent portfolio investment over GDP. INSTITUTION refers to national institutions and includes four indicators measured as index numbers: pluralism, competitive veto points, consensus veto points, and electoral system. POLITICAL POWER refers to the affected group’s power to get subsidies and is measured as the inverse of import demand; u is the disturbance term.

Table 1 The Determinants of Total Subsidies (1)(2)(3) Labor Specificity (LS) (.004)*** (.005)***(.006)*** Capital Specificity (CS) (.005)(.004)(.006) Political Power (12.84)**(11.78)***(12.01)** Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) (.010)(.010)(.010) Portfolio Investment (.002)**(.003)(.003) Trade Openness (.009)(.014)***(.011)*** Pluralism-.686 (.274)** Electoral System-.048 (.084) Collective Veto Points.520 (.222)** Competitive Veto Points.354 (.21)* LS * FDI (.0001)(.0001)(.000) LS * Trade (.0000)***(.0001)***(.0001)** LS * Portfolio (00002)***(.0000)(8.16e-06)*** CS * FDI (.000)(.0000)(.00004)** CS * Trade e (.0001)**(.0000)(.0001) CS * Portfolio (0000)(.0000)(000) Pluralism * Trade.0154 (.006)** Pluralism * FDI-.004 (.003) Pluralism * Portfolio5.70e-07 (1.18e-06) Electoral System * Trade.000 (.002) Electoral System * FDI.000 (.000) Electoral System * Portfolio (.0002) Collective Veto Points * Trade.0099 (.0038)** Collective Veto Points * FDI.002 (.002) Collective Veto Points * Portfolio.0008 (.001)

Table continued Competitive Veto Points * Trade (.005)* Competitive Veto Points * FDI.0007 (.0017) Competitive Veto Points * Portfolio.001 (.002) Constant (.719)(.634)*(.76)** Adjusted R-squared Rho Prais-Winsten estimates with robust standard errors in parentheses N=173; *.05<p<.10, **.01<p<.05, *** p<.01, two-tailed

Figure 1 Counterfactual Estimates % of GDP Pluralism Less More Trade Low High Counterfactuals were estimated on the basis of equation 1. Low (high) trade refers to the 20 th (80 th ) percentile score in the sample. Less (more) pluralism refers to the 20 th (80 th ) percent in the index. All other variables were set at their means.

Findings Political power affects the disbursement of subsidies Labor specificity is more important than capital specificity Pluralism and collective veto points matter Trade openness, more than FDI or portfolio investment, matters There are important interactive effects mostly between specificity and trade and portfolio investment; less with pluralism and collective veto points

Implications If countries become more open over time, corporatism rather than pluralism is the preferred institution of choice in the long-term. Not all globalization is created equal. Trade is important, but increasing exposure to capital movements qualifies the dynamics of coalition formation in domestic economies. The more globalization undermines democratic politics, the more democratic politics will strive to tame globalization.