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Anti-dumping actions and macroeconomic fluctuations

Philippine Review of Economics

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Title Anti-dumping actions and macroeconomic fluctuations
 
Creator Teh, Robert; World Trade Organization
 
Subject anti-dumping; real exchange rate; panel data; negative binomial regression
 
Description Using a significantly larger panel of countries than previous studies, we find strong confirmation that macroeconomic factors (real GDP growth and changes in the real effective exchange rate) affect the frequency of anti-dumping investigations. A reduction in real GDP growth or a depreciation of the real effective exchange rate leads to increased use of anti-dumping. Most previous studies of “traditional users” and “new users” of anti-dumping tend to associate real exchange rate appreciation with more anti-dumping activities. Because of the possible endogeneity of trade liberalization and anti-dumping actions, we caution against the inclusion of contemporaneous measures of trade openness in the explanatory variables. Even if this advice is ignored, no convincing evidence exists that greater trade openness or reductions in most favored nation (MFN) tariffs by developing countries increase the number of their anti-dumping filings. An important caveat to our results is the large number of zero anti-dumping actions in the data set, which may not have been adequately controlled for in the regressions.Classification-JEL: C23, F13, F53
 
Publisher Philippine Review of Economics
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2010-09-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/11
 
Source Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 46, No 2 (2009): Papers in Honor of Rolando A. Danao
1655-1516
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/11/675
 
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