Learning by Ruling and Trade Disputes

We thank Kala Krishna and Andres Rodriguez-Clare, our discussants at the 2016 Princeton IES Summer Workshop, Nuno Limao, our discussant at the 2016 NBER ITI Summer Institute, and Gene Grossman, our discussant at the 2016 Philadelphia Fed Trade conference, for very helpful and detailed comments on an earlier draft. We are also grateful to David Atkin, Chad Bown, Petros C. Mavroidis, Doug Staiger and participants in seminars at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, CREI, FGV-Rio, FGV-Sao Paulo, Georgetown, Insper, Stanford, Syracuse and the University of Geneva for useful comments and discussions. Junhui Zeng provided outstanding research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.