This paper empirically investigates the effects of US safeguard protection on steel imports in 2002 on the mark-ups of …-product EU steel firms suffered relatively more from the protection than multi-product firms. Controlling for firm heterogeneity …, these results are robust to alternative specifications. Our evidence further suggests that US protection resulted in some …

This paper empirically investigates the effects of US safeguard protection on steel imports in 2002 on the mark-ups of …-product EU steel firms suffered relatively more from the protection than multi-product firms. Controlling for firm heterogeneity …, these results are robust to alternative specifications. Our evidence further suggests that US protection resulted in some …

Contingent Protection has grown to become an important trade restricting device. In the European Union, protection … domestic macroeconomic pressures are a more important determinant of contingent protection policy than external pressures. …

specifications suggest that, depending on the empirical model, the implementation of a trade protection measure is associated with … about 40 to 80 percent lower FDI inflows. Trade protection does not appear to have any implications for the country's FDI … actions related to intellectual property rights protection and other more trade related measures. …

protection on Asian competitors, the desire of Asian countries to negotiate free trade agreements (FTA) with the US and Japan …

foreign cultural goods with various policy interventions. We analyze theeconomics of domestic cultural content protection in …

position has neither theoretical support nor empirical evidence in its favor. Given that protection may have other - usually …