The paper develops a two-stage duopoly model to investigate the effects of eliminating subsidies to state trading enterprises (STEs) as discussed in the WTO Doha Development Agenda negotiations on agriculture. Unlike the STE, the private firm may choose to integrate vertically in order to avoid...

The authors investigate a puzzling decline in US firm antidumping (AD) filings in an era of persistent foreign currency undervaluations and increasing import competition. Firms exhibit heterogeneity both within and across industries regarding foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms making...

The paper develops a two-stage duopoly model to investigate the effects of the elimination of subsidies to State Trading Enterprises (STEs) as discussed in the WTO Doha Development Agenda negotiations on agriculture. Unlike the STE, the private firm may choose to integrate vertically in order to...