Size matters! Who is bashing whom in trade war?

作者：Miyagiwa Kaz; Song Huasheng^*; Vandenbussche Hylke

来源：International Review of Economics & Finance, 2016, 45: 33-45.

DOI：10.1016/j.iref.2016.05.001

• Reciprocal dumping
• Anti-dumping
• Market size

In this paper we present a dynamic model of trade wars in contingent protection. We find that "market size" matters in trade wars in the sense that countries are more likely to initiate anti-dumping cases against countries having sufficiently smaller home markets relative to their own, but less likely against countries with larger markets. We test this "selective-targeting hypothesis" using World Bank data of worldwide anti-dumping filings during the years 1995-2014, and find strong support for it. Thus, our study indicates the importance of relative market size in understanding recent patterns of anti-dumping filings and contingent protection in world trade.

• 出版日期2016-9
• 单位浙江大学