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Trade Protection Along Supply Chains
Bown, Chad P.; Conconi, Paola; Erbahar, Aksel; … - 2021
During the last decades, the United States has applied increasingly high trade protection against China. We combine detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties — the most widely used trade barrier — with US input-output data to study the effects of trade protection along supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251244
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates : evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383481
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The 2018 US-China Trade Conflict after 40 Years of Special Protection
Bown, Chad P. - 2019
In 2018, the United States suddenly increased tariffs on nearly 50 percent of its imports from China. China immediately retaliated with tariffs on more than 70 percent of imports from the United States. This paper assesses what happened in 2018 and attempts to explain why. It first constructs a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871651
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Trade protection along supply chains
Bown, Chad P.; Conconi, Paola; Erbahar, Aksel; … - 2020
During the last decades, the United States has applied increasingly high trade protection against China. We combine detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties - the most widely used trade barrier - with US input-output data to study the effects of trade protection along supply chains. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405465
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Global Value Chains and the Removal of Trade Protection
Bown, Chad P. - 2020
This paper examines how trade protection is affected by changes in the value-added content of production arising through global value chains (GVCs). Exploiting a new set of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules adopted in 1995 that impose an exogenously timed requirement for countries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836762
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Did Trump's trade war impact the 2018 election?
Blanchard, Emily J.; Bown, Chad P.; Chor, Davin - 2020
We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation, but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products, and were only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293757
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Introduction to 'The Great Recession and Import Protection : The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers'
Bown, Chad P. - 2011
contraction did not result in a massive wave of new protectionism. Comprehending why the 2008-9 economic crisis failed to trigger … and the 21st century multilateral trading system. While there was not a large scale resort to protectionism, the facts … Database. These efforts both addressed some of the immediate concern about the unknown scale of protectionism taking place in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122286
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Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates : Evidence from the Great Recession
Bown, Chad P. - 2013
This paper estimates the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1-2010:Q4 for five industrialized economies - the United States, European Union, Australia, Canada and South Korea. We find evidence of a strong countercyclical trade policy response in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092026
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Global value chains and the removal of trade protection
Bown, Chad P.; Erbahar, Aksel; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224413
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Antidumping and Retaliation Threats
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Bown, Chad P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for foreign government retaliation under the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT/WTO system,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828733