This paper examines newly available data from the World Bank-sponsored Global Antidumping Database tracking the worldwide use of trade remedies such as antidumping, countervailing duties, global safeguards and China-specific safeguards during the current economic crisis. The data indicate a...

The Great Recession of 2008-9 imposed a negative shock on the global economy comparable to the 1930s Great Depression. Nevertheless, one fundamental distinction between the Great Depression and the Great Recession is that the 2008-9 global economic contraction did not result in a massive wave of...

This paper examines Korea's use of temporary trade barriers, mainly antidumping measures, before and during the global financial crisis of 2008-9. Using the Temporary Trade Barriers Database (Bown 2010b), we determined that the stock of imported products subject to antidumping duties in Korea...