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Over the past decade, the world-wide use of antidumping has become very widespread – 41 WTO-member countries initiated … antidumping cases over the 1995-2003 period. From another perspective, US exporters were subjected to 139 antidumping cases during … antidumping filings may be motivated as retaliation against similar measures imposed on a country’s exporters. This is the focus …
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through administrative procedures such as antidumping enforcement will increase as more traditional forms such as tariffs and … liberalization in the spread of antidumping. Through both correlations and regression approaches we analyze the relationship between … tariff concessions made during the Uruguay Round trade negotiations and the filing of antidumping petitions, with particular …
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Economists often use event study methodology to evaluate the impact of new regulations on firms before there is enough data to empirically estimate the effects. This research investigates the degree to which event study methodology can provide useful information in this regard by studying how...
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The paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model with two informal sectors with complete mobility of labour between these sectors and with a positive relationship between wage income and labour's efficiency to show that the results relating to foreign capital inflow and removal of...
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In a production structure reasonable for a developing economy this note shows that there may arise a conflict between the worldwide liberalized trade policies in agriculture, which raise the price of the economy’s primary exportable commodity, and the inflow of foreign capital into the...
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This paper develops a growth theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class conflicts, and global income divergence over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional effects of international trade, this paper finds a prominent...
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This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...
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Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines, such as WTO tariff bindings and bindings on market access in services, constrain this variability. We examine the theoretical effects of such constraints on the expected cost of protection and offer...
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whether a recent change in U.S. antidumping law known as the Byrd Amendment bestows private benefits to firms lobbying for … that industries have chosen to lobby for more tariff protection, or filed more antidumping petitions, since passage of the …
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This paper examines Congressional support of the Byrd Amendment, a new antidumping law that directs the U.S. Customs …
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