Plant-level responses to antidumping duties: Evidence from US manufacturers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pierce, Justin R.
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.07.006
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 222-233
• 关键词: Antidumping; Temporary protection; heterogeneous firms; PRODUCTIVITY

摘要

This paper describes the effects of a temporary increase in tariffs on the performance and behavior of U.S. manufacturers. Using a dataset that includes the full population of U.S. manufacturing plants, I show that an apparent positive correlation between antidumping duties and traditional revenue productivity is likely misleading. For the subset of plants reporting quantity-based output data, increases in prices and markups artificially inflate the effect of antidumping duties on revenue productivity, while physical productivity actually falls. Moreover, antidumping duties allow low-productivity plants to continue producing protected products, slowing the reallocation of resources from less productive to more productive uses. Published by Elsevier B.V.