This paper demonstrates the prominent role of antidumping laws as an instrument of endogenous trade policy in the EC. In contrast with the U.S. where anti-dumping decisions are largely subject to technical determination and trade barriers result from protectionist rules, the EC application of...

This paper demonstrates the prominent role of antidumping laws as an Instrument of endogenous trade policy in the EC. In contrast with the US where dumping is subject to technical determination, the EC application of antidumping laws reflects political discretion and influence.

In the European Community (EC), as in the United States,"injury"is what antidumping is all about. Antidumping laws are a flexible tool for preventing imports from displacing domestic production in politically influential industries. The vehicle for achieving that goal in the EC, however, is not...

This paper demonstrates the prominent role of antidumping laws as an Instrument of endogenous trade policy in the EC. In contrast with the US where dumping is subject to technical determination, the EC application of antidumping laws reflects political discretion and influence.

Within the framework of a microeconomic model of leisure demand, the determinants of German tourists' decisions whether to spend vacation at all, which activities to pursue, and which travel destination to choose are investigated empirically. Three-stage nested multinomial logit models are...

Anlaß dieses Beitrags bildet der im Januar 1989 präsentierte Kommissionsvorschlag zu einer Richtlinie bezüglich der Übernahme von Unternehmen in den Mitgliedstaaten. Zunächst werden theoretische Überlegungen zur Gestaltung von institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen diskutiert, die die...