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This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1–2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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This paper empirically examines how governments make trade policy adjustments under a self-enforcing trade agreement in the presence of economic shocks. Using data on US antidumping (AD) policy formation between 1997-2006, we find that US antidumping policy is often consistent with the...
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This paper investigates the international externalities associated with US use of antidumping (AD) measures by examining the relationship between US AD duties (ADDs) and Japanese exports to the US and EU over the 1992-2001 period. We first examine the trade destruction and trade diversion...
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In this paper, I test the theory that weak economic conditions in a foreign economy cause cyclical dumping, i.e., the temporary sale of products in a trading partner's economy at a price below average total cost. Although I am unable to observe prices or costs directly, a novel identification...
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importing-country's welfare when it faces dumping caused by weak foreign demand. Interestingly, the antidumping duty does not … completely stem the tide of dumped imports, but it improves welfare through shifting some of the dumping firm's rents to the home …
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changes under tariffs of different country-breadth. I show that a country-specific tariff like an antidumping duty induces …-competing firm, but will slow-down technology adoption by foreign exporting firms. Because safeguard tariffs can delay the foreign … firm's adoption of new technology, the worldwide welfare costs associated with using them may be larger than is generally …
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This is the first paper to empirically examine whether the United States' imposition of a special import restraint distorts foreign exports and thus affects world trade flows. We first develop a theoretical model of worldwide trade in which the imposition of a special import restraint by one...
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This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a quantitative … magnitude larger welfare gains when China's productivity growth is biased towards its comparative disadvantage sectors. We …. As a separate but related exercise we quantify the worldwide welfare gains from China's trade integration. …
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