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This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the WTO differ in the extent to which they … reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other … differently compared to specific duties or duties conditional on the export price. Overall, however, antidumping duties remain …
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-in-differences approach, we compare export dynamics between multi-destination exporters that were subject to antidumping (AD) duties and those …
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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industries helps to maintain … effect is present both for antidumping cases that result in duties and cases that are withdrawn by the petitioning industry. …
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This paper investigates the bilateral impacts of antidumping measures, beyond directly targeted products and exporting … export volumes are negatively affected for products similar to a product targeted by an antidumping case, i.e. belonging to …
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The latest resurgence in the U.S. of policies aimed at reducing imports and bolstering domestic production has included the expansion of Buy American provisions. While some of these are new and untested, in this paper we evaluate long-standing procurement limitations on the purchase of foreign...
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We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...
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If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can...
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To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China's 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of heterogeneous firms, we provide empirical evidence that...
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Are product standards protectionism in disguise? This paper estimates the costs of non-compliance with US product standards, using a new database on US import refusals from 2002 to 2012. We find that import refusals significantly decrease exports to the United States. This trade reducing effect...
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A common narrative is that COVID-19 cost Trump re-election. We do not find supporting evidence; if anything, the pandemic helped Trump. However, we find substantial evidence that voters abandoned Trump in counties with large increases in health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act,...
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