is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …

We argue that the rise of antidumping protection and the proliferation of voluntary export restraints are fundamentally … inter-related. We show that both can be explained by a cost-based definition of dumping when the domestic government has … restrains their exports prior to the antidumping investigation. In turn, the VER distorts the government's perception of the …

cycle transmission across countries. -- dumping ; anti-dumping ; counter-cyclical policy …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 …

Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these … economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws, we build a simple theoretical model of vertical intra-industry trade and … investigate the strategic incentives of exporting firms to undertake dumping. We show that the definition of dumping matters …

We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economieshave increasingly applied anti-dumping … laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentivesof oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these … theexchange rate depreciations observed recently. Dumping may arise even if consumers exhaustall arbitrage possibilities. …