Measuring Industry-Specific Protection: Antidumping in the United States

Frank A. Wolak and

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Frank A. Wolak Stanford University and National Bureau of Economic Research

Robert W. Staiger

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Robert W. Staiger University of Wisconsin and National Bureau of Economic Research

Discussants: Leonard Waverman,

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Leonard Waverman

Michael L. Katz, and

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Michael L. Katz

Robert E. Litan

Robert E. Litan Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Regulation and Markets @BobLitan

Do ANTIDUMPING LAWS have anticompetitive consequences and restrict trade? These questions arise repeatedly in multilateral and bilateral trade talks. Although there are reasons to suspect that antidumping laws do have such effects, little is known about the size of these effects in practice, and even less about the mechanisms by which they occur. This paper provides estimates of the trade impacts of U.S. antidumping law and the determinants of suit-filing activity from 1980 to 1985.