We examine the impact of the steel tariffs imposed by the United States in 2018. The tariffs were unusual in their size – 25% – and comprehensive coverage. These characteristics, as well as the concentrated nature of the U.S. industry, make the tariffs a useful instrument for measuring...

Asset forfeiture has proven highly controversial in the United States since its expansion in 1984. Most controversial is the widespread policy that allows police agencies to keep the assets seized, which both proponents and critics assert changes police behavior. From newly developed panel data...

Nations set countervailing duties equal to the amount of subsidy granted to the exporter, ignoring questions of the effects of the subsidy on import prices. The 2011 WTO Appellate Body decision in US – Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (China), followed by conforming changes in U.S. law in...

The WTO allows members to impose contingent protection, including antidumping duties, within agreed constraints. Antidumping proceedings typically name a single captioned product but include large numbers of individual products within that caption. The inclusion of multiple products creates a...

Earlier work evaluated the association of asset forfeiture with the clearances of crimes reported to police and with the distribution of arrests by type. This paper provides further results concerning the impact of forfeiture on policing.Asset forfeiture refers to a government seizure of assets...

Trade authorities often use surrogates for normal value in antidumping proceedings, most famously in the case of non-market economies. When an authority pursues simultaneous antidumping and countervailing duty investigations against a non-market economy, the use of surrogate normal value creates...

Asset forfeiture has proven highly controversial in the United States since its expansion in 1984. Most controversial is the widespread policy that allows police agencies to keep the assets seized, which both proponents and critics assert changes police behavior. From newly developed panel data...

Blonigen and Haynes (2002) calculated that pass-through of antidumping duties estimates to U.S. pricing of 200% would be required to eliminate potential antidumping duties. In empirical testing, the authors found pass-through of approximately 173%. However, their initial calculation was based on...

This is a technical appendix to the paper Product Heterogeneity and Cost Allocations in Contingent Trade Protection.The paper to which these Appendices apply is available at the following URL: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2328997" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2328997

This document contains the solutions and discussion notes to the assignments presented in the manuscript “Using integrative graphic assignments to promote deep learning of the market mechanism,” published in the Journal of Economic Education. Additional problems and solutions prepared by...