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Did Us Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel Producers?

Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zarnic, Ziga - 2008

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 …

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Trade Policy as Corporate Welfare : The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry

McGee, Robert W. - 2003

This paper begins with a discussion of what constitutes corporate welfare, then proceeds to apply the corporate welfare concept to the steel industry in the United States. A review is made of the various government supports that the steel industry has enjoyed since 1969. Studies have estimated...

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A Close Look at the U.S. Steel Industry : Protective Tariffs and Their Effect on the Economies of East Asia

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

The U.S. steel industry has a long history of being protected, first when it was an infant industry in 1791 and later as it became a mature industry and needed breathing room to allow it to restructure so that it could compete against more efficient foreign producers. In recent years the steel...

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Learning by Doing, Export Subsidies, and Industry Growth : Japanese Steel in the 1950s and 60s

Ohashi, Hiroshi - 2022

The paper examines the Japanese steel industry to evaluate the role of export subsidy policies. Export subsidies can be instrumental in increasing an industry's cost competitiveness in the presence of learning by doing, a characteristic of production in the steel industry. Using a dynamic...

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Did Us Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel Producers?

Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2006

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The emergence of wage coordination in the Central Western European metal sector and its relationship to European economic policy

Glassner, Vera; Pusch, Toralf - 2010

In the European Monetary Union the transnational coordination of collective wage bargaining has acquired increased importance on the trade union agenda. The metal sector has been at the forefront of these developments. This paper addresses the issue of crossborder coordination of wage setting in...

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The Protectionist Mentality : An Accounting and Philosophical Analysis -- Part I

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

This paper examines the various arguments that have been put forth in favor of protectionism, from both an accounting and philosophical perspective. The author concludes that arguments against free trade are based on faulty premises, illogical reasoning or incorrect facts

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Rethinking the U.S. Antidumping Laws with Reference to China, Japan and Korea

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

The stated purpose of the antidumping laws is to prevent unfair trade and to punish foreign producers for predatory pricing. The practical effect, however, is to prevent foreign producers from selling their products in a domestic market, even when pricing has not been abnormally low or...

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Business in the Global Community

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

This paper discusses the pitfalls of trade protectionism and argues the case for free trade. An extensive bibliography on trade is also included, which has links to more than 100 articles on various aspect of trade

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The Protectionist Mentality : An Accounting and Philosophical Analysis -- Part II

McGee, Robert W. - 2016

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