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anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake … dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to cross-country differences in income, to the extent of tariff … protection and to the exchange rate depreciations observed recently. Dumping may arise even if consumers exhaust all arbitrage …
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This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where … penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade …
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This paper highlights the severity of China’s AD problems, and high concentration of AD actions taken by the top initiators, noting that China can offer a higher level of economic integration in an RTA in exchange for improved regional AD provisions. Case studies on RTAs give precedents in...
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This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market …
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is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …
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We show that essentially every communication equilibrium of any finite Bayesian game with two players can be implemented as a strategic form correlated equilibrium of an extended game, in which before choosing actions as in the Bayesian game, the players engage in a possibly infinitely long (but...
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We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...
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This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...
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In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on output for a specific (unit) tax can enhance welfare in imperfectly competitive markets and is without impact in a competitive world. This paper demonstrates that a substitution...
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Tax competition between two governments who choose nonlinear income tax schedules to maximize the average utility of its residents when skills are unobservable and labor is perfectly mobile is examined. We show that there are no Nash equilibria in which there is a skill type that pays positive...
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