Retaliation through Temporary Trade Barriers

Modern Commercial Policy: Managed Trade or Retaliation?

In this paper we study worldwide antidumping (AD) case filing patterns in order to determine the extent to which economic versus strategic incentives explain the behavior of countries employing AD actions. We compare four main hypotheses. Two are motivated by the BagwellStaiger (1990) model of special protection and are consistent with the view that AD actions are used to prevent unfair trade: ...

Informationally Efficient Trade Barriers∗

Why are trade barriers often used to protect home producers, even at the cost of introducing deadweight losses from higher commodity prices? We add an informational friction to the standard textbook argument in favor of free trade, and show that trade restrictions may be a more efficient policy than a lump sum transfer to the displaced producers. Trade barriers, while generating deadweight loss...

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Trade Policy Barriers versus Institutional Trade Barriers: an Application Using “good Old” Ols

Trade policy barriers are only one element of the overall trade costs. Due to the decrease in the influence of tariff barriers on trade, institutional barriers may be increasing in relative importance. In this line, this paper compares and quantifies the impact that a number of institutional and policy trade barriers have on bilateral trade flows. Results indicate that institutional trade barri...

Free Trade or Protection: A Literature Review on Trade Barriers

The purpose of this paper is to, firstly explain the reason of international trade according to recent theories; secondly, collect several sorts of opinions about free trade and protectionism referring to relevant literatures; thirdly describe export barriers in different aspects, such as natural barriers and artificial barriers; lastly from trade regulation perspective introduce WTO as a tool ...