Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … quantity effects of antidumping in cartel products. We find that the use of antidumping in cartel industries helps to maintain … effect is present both for antidumping cases that result in duties and cases that are withdrawn by the petitioning industry. …

instruments like antidumping are used extensively. This paper analyses whether macroeconomic pressures may contribute to explain … the variations in the intensity of antidumping protectionism in the EU. The empirical analysis uses count data models …. -- Antidumping ; Protection ; Macroeconomic Conditions ; Estimation of Count Data Models …