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literature predicting nonequivalent effects of tariffs and quotas on domestic firms' market power. Robust to a variety of … evidence that antidumping protection increases market power …
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This paper calculates the Anderson-Neary (2005) trade restrictiveness index (TRI) for the United States using nearly a century of data. The results show that the standard import-weighted average tariff understates the TRI, defined as the uniform tariff that yields the same welfare loss as the...
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find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all source countries, the price of washers rose by nearly 12 percent …; the price of dryers--a complementary good not subject to tariffs--increased by an equivalent amount. Factoring in the … effect of dryers and price increases by domestic brands, our estimates for the 2018 tariffs on washers imply a tariff …
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decline in import growth. We then construct measures of export exposure to import tariffs by linking tariffs paid by importing …
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This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early...
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-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how … little effect on market power, consistent with prior theoretical literature on the nonequivalence of tariffs and quotas. We …
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An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected … domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper considers the impact of import tariffs on the domestic pig iron …
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During the seventies and eighties the US steel industry received trade protection. However, these rents were not used to improve competitiveness. Instead, they were reflected in higher wages and a greater share of profits invested in sectors not related to steel. Moreover, the steel industry...
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competition from non-local firms. This study documents the presence of local protectionism and quantifies its impacts on market …
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In 2003, after claims of dumping, the U.S. imposed heavy tariffs on imports of catfish from Vietnam. As a result …
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