Macroeconomic Factors and Antidumping Filings: Evidence from Four Countries

Michael M. Knetter, Thomas J. Prusa

NBER Working Paper No. 8010
Issued in November 2000
NBER Program(s):   ITI

This paper examines the relationship between antidumping filings and macroeconomic factors. We show that real exchange rate fluctuations affect the two criteria for dumping in opposite ways, making the overall effect on filings ambiguous in theory. Interestingly, no such ambiguity is evidenced in the data. Examining the filing patterns of the four major users of AD law during the 1980--98 period we find that real exchange rates and domestic real GDP growth both have statistically significant impacts on filings. Bilateral filing data indicate that a one-standard deviation real appreciation of the domestic currency increases filings by 33% while a one-standard deviation fall in domestic real GDP increases filings by 23%.

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• Knetter, Michael M. and Thomas J. Prusa. "Macroeconomic Factors and Antidumping Filings: Evidence from Four Countries." Journal of International Economics 61, 1 (October 2003): 1-17. ,
• Nelson, Douglas R. and Hylke Vandenbussche (eds.) The WTO and Anti-Dumping. Volume 1, Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO, vol. 7. An Elgar Reference Collection. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, MA: Elgar, 2005.

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