propose to measure political importance using temporary membership on the United Nations Security Council and analyze a newly …

This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the WTO differ in the extent to which they … reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other … targeted countries. This difference can be traced back in part to China's non-market economy status, which affects the way AD …

Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … quantity effects of antidumping in cartel products. We find that the use of antidumping in cartel industries helps to maintain … effect is present both for antidumping cases that result in duties and cases that are withdrawn by the petitioning industry. …

We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union …'s time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions' distortions. -- unions ; endogenous membership …

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … average partial effect of union membership. -- dismissal ; free-riding ; trade union membership ; survey data …