Injury Investigations in anti-Dumping and the Super-Additivity Effect: A Theoretical Explanation

August 1, 2001

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Poonam Gupta, and Arvind Panagariya. Injury Investigations in anti-Dumping and the Super-Additivity Effect: A Theoretical Explanation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

Empirical evidence shows that injury investigations in anti-dumping cases conducted by the United States International Trade Commission, the probability of a positive finding is higher when the number of defendant firms is larger, holding constant their total market share. In this paper we offer a theoretical explanation of this finding. We show that the presence of many exporters exacerbates the free-rider problem, which leads every firm to invest less on defense. Thus for the same market share, injury finding is more likely to be positive for many small sellers than a few large sellers.

Subject: Antidumping, Exports, Imports, International trade, Protectionism, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Additivity effect, Antidumping, Anti-dumping, Cumulation, Defendant firm, Dumping charge, Dumping margin, Exports, Imports, Injury investigation, Market share, Protectionism, Representative firm, S. Assuming, Tariffs, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

13
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2001/110
Stock No:

WPIEA1102001
ISBN:

9781451853346
ISSN:

1018-5941

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