贸易政策政治经济学研究进展

Research Progress on Political Economy of Trade Policy

将国际贸易理论和新政治经济学结合起来研究贸易政策制定,是20世纪80年代以来发展起来的经济学分支。现有文献通过构建贸易政策内生模型,研究了贸易政策政治决策过程及其影响因素,探索政治经济因素互动下贸易政策的生成机制,政府作为“调停人”、“自治者”以及利益集团在政治决策中的角色定位和影响。本文希望通过梳理贸易政策政治经济学的理论脉络、贸易政策政治决策过程及其影响因素、政府和利益集团在贸易政策决策中的角色定位,有助于我国贸易政策的妥善制定。

Combining international trade theory with new political economy and exploring the formulation and decision-making mechanism of international trade policy is an important branch of economics,which has risen rapidly since the 1980s.By constructing the theoretical model of the endogeneity of trade policy,or carrying out the econometric analysis,scholars investigated the determinants and restrictions of trade policy in the process of formulation,and explore the generating mechanism of trade policy with the interaction of political and economic factors.This paper summarizes recent research progress in the field of political economy of trade policy from the perspective of theory,measurement and empirical research.Existing studies analyzes how trade policy affects trade through the process of formulating trade policy and welfare analysis.Empirical research centered on the efficiency of trade protection policy and gains from lobbying,including the determinants and policy-making process of trade protection as well as the applications of interest model.Based on the above research,differences in trade protection between China and the United States are discussed,in the hope of improving the policy-making process of China s trade policy.