A short--run model for estimating the procompetitive effects of foreign competition on markups in an oligopolistic, domestic industry is developed and estimated using data on the Australian automobile industry. Estimates reveal that these effects are rather large and cannot be ignored when...

Societal theories of trade policy stress the importance of domestic interest groups, whereas statist theories focus on the effects of domestic institutions. Debates over the relative merits of these approaches have been fierce, but little systematic empirical research has been brought to bear on...

Grossman and Helpman explain tariffs as the outcome of a lobbying game between special interests and the government. Most empirical implementations of this framework use instead non-tariff barriers to measure the extent of protection. Importantly, while the former set of instruments allow the...

Die Analyse des internationalen Handels von Dienstleistungen weist Eigenarten auf, die dem Charakter der Dienstleistung geschuldet sind: Immateriell und nicht lagerfähig findet dennoch der internationale Austausch statt, wenn auch unter besonderen Bedingungen. Diese Arbeit untersucht den Handel...

We investigate competition for FDI within a region when a foreign multinational firm can profitably exploit differences in statutory corporate tax rates by shifting taxable profits to lower-tax jurisdictions. In such framework we show that targeted tax competition may lead to higher welfare for...

This paper examines the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on the duration of antidumping protection. It employs a two-step selection model where the first step accounts for the impact of PTA membership on the original antidumping determination and the second step estimates the...