Kolev, Dorbin R.; Prusa, Thomas J. - 2013
We argue that the rise of antidumping protection and the proliferation of voluntary export restraints (VERs) are … fundamentally interrelated. We show that both can be explained by a cost-based definition of dumping when the domestic government … antidumping investigation. In turn, the VER distorts the government's perception of the foreign firm's efficiency and leads to …