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Anti-dumping Duties and the Byrd Amendment

Collie, David R.; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2004

The Byrd amendment to US anti-dumping law distributes the revenue from anti-dumping duties imposed on foreign firms to the domestic firms that lodged the complaint of dumping. When the government sets its anti-dumping duty to maximise a welfare function that attaches greater weight to the...

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Trade Policy and Global Sourcing : An Efficiency Rationale for Tariff Escalation

Antràs, Pol; Fort, Teresa C.; Gutierrez, Agustin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence … up the chain for final-good tariffs, input tariffs may drive final-good producers to relocate abroad, mitigating their …

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Global production with export platforms

Tintelnot, Felix - 2014

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...

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Trade intermediation and the organization of exporters

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin - 2011

The business literature and recent descriptive evidence show that exporting firms typically require the help of foreign trade intermediaries or need to set up own foreign wholesale affiliates. In contrast, conventional trade theory models assume that producers can directly access foreign...

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COVID-19 Regulatory Responses and FDI in the United States : Trends and Implications for Capital Flows

Nyiwul, Linus - 2022

Investment regulations implemented by the US government as part of the response to COVID-19 have implications for capital flows. The objective of this paper is to analyse how these regulations affect FDI flows, the potential long-term consequences for the United States and developing economies....

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The Effects of a China-US Free Trade and Investment Agreement

Petri, Peter A.; Plummer, Michael G.; Zhai, Fan - 2014

Neither of the major negotiations underway in the Asia-Pacific region, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, includes both China and the United States. By failing to connect these economies, these agreements would leave much of the economic and...

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Corporate governence and foreign direct investment

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2010

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is motivated by increasing shareholder value through improved corporate governance. Therefore, stronger corporate governance can reduce the returns from M&A activity, including M&A foreign direct investment (FDI). This, in turn, can reduce the returns from...

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Corporate governance and merger and acquisition foreign direct investment : firm-level evidence from Japanese foreign direct investment into the US

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2009

Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a mechanism for promoting corporate governance suggesting that an improvement in overall corporate governance may have a negative effect on M&A activity. Since M&A foreign direct investment (FDI) is a cross-border variant of M&A, stronger corporate governance may...

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Determinants of firms' inputs sourcing choices : the role of institutional and regulatory factors

Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2018

Using the theoretical framework of global sourcing with firm heterogeneity, we examine determinants of inputs sourcing choices of manufacturing firms established in the EU countries. To this purpose, we combine information on the ownership structure and company accounts from the Orbis data set...

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Cyclical dumping and US antidumping protection: 1980 - 2001

Crowley, Meredith - 2009

This paper estimates the impact of economic conditions in foreign industries on the filing of antidumping petitions by US industries and the US government's decision in preliminary and final antidumping investigations. Exploiting cross-country variation in economic shocks in manufacturing, I...

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