The Armington substitution elasticity is a key parameter for trade-policy analysis. We estimate short- and long-run Armington elasticities for 309 manufacturing industries at the four-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) level over the period 1989-1995. Our estimation results offer a...

This paper presents a legal-economic analysis of the World Trade Organization’s Article 22.6 arbitration report on the dispute over certain United States’ antidumping methodologies. The Arbitrator sought to quantify the damages suffered by China from US non-compliance with an earlier ruling....

A key relationship for trade policy analysis is the degree of substitution between imported and domestic goods due to changes in the relative price of those two goods, commonly known as the Armington elasticity. We estimate Armington elasticities for 312 industries at the 4-digit SIC level over...