Firms protected by antidumping measures do not unequivocally benefit from them. Antidumpingprotection benefits non-exporters active on the protected market by raising their domestic sales, buthurts exporters of similar products as the protected ones. Export sales of protected firms fall byalmost...

Tax competition within the EU is fiercer than in the rest of the OECD with tax rates fallingrapidly. This paper analyzes tax responses of EU-15 countries to corporate tax changes in theEU-10 new member states as a function of their proximity to these new member states. Theaverage corporate tax...

This paper uses a unique micro-level data-set on Chinese firms to test for the existence of a"political-pecking order" in the allocation of credit. Our findings are threefold. Firstly, privateChinese firms are credit constrained while State-owned firms and foreign-owned firms inChina are not;...

We analyze the relationship between Antidumping (AD) Protection and the productivity ofEU domestic firms in import-competing industries. For this purpose we identify a panel ofdomestic firms between 1993 and 2003 that at some point during this period are affected byAD initiations. Using a...