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Trade Policy and Market Power: The Case of the US Steel Industry

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W.; Liebman, Benjamin H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms'...

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Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W.; Liebman, Benjamin H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

evidence that antidumping protection increases market power. …

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Size and Growth of Japanese Plants in the United States

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Tomlin, KaSaundra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between plant size and growth for these foreign-owned plants. These plants average sizes are three times larger than comparable U.S. plants and experienced 30 percent growth from 1987...

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An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment

Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We develop an assignment theory to analyze the volume and composition of foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms conduct FDI by either engaging in greenfield investment or in cross-border acquisitions. Cross-border acquisitions involve firms trading heterogeneous corporate assets to exploit...

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The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

Antras, Pol; Fort, Teresa C.; Tintelnot, Felix - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies the extensive and intensive margins of firms' global sourcing decisions. We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. The model delivers a simple...

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Product Differentiation, Multi-product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity

De Loecker, Jan K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In this paper I analyze the productivity gains from trade liberalization in the Belgian textile industry. So far, empirical research has established a strong relationship between opening up to trade and productivity, relying almost entirely on deflated sales to proxy for output in the production...

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Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The U.S. steel industry has long held that foreign subsidization and excess capacity has led to its long-run demise, yet no one has formally examined this hypothesis. In this paper, we incorporate foreign subsidization considerations into a model based on Staiger and Wolak's (1992)...

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Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Antidumping Policy: Theory and Evidence

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Park, Jee-Hyeong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

Antidumping (AD) duties are calculated as the difference between the foreign firm's product price in the export market …

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Carry-Along Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Blanchard, Emily J.; Beveren, Ilke Van - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export data at the firm-product level, we find that the...

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Global Supply Chains, Currency Undervaluation, and Firm Protectionist Demands

Jensen, J. Bradford; Quinn, Dennis P.; Weymouth, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

with undervalued exchange rates will lead to fewer antidumping filings. Examining the universe of U.S. manufacturing firms …, we find that antidumping petition filers are more internationally engaged than non-filing peers, but conduct less related … undervalued currencies significantly decrease (increase) the likelihood of U.S. antidumping petitions. Our study highlights the …

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