Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2003-06-18
Number: 03-054/2
Author-Name: Joseph Francois
Author-Email: francois@few.eur.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and CEPR
Author-Name: Gunnar Niels
Author-Email: francois@few.eur.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: OXERA, and Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Business Cycles, the Current Account, and Administered Protection in Mexico
Abstract: Antidumping actions in the United States and EU are knownto be linked to macroeconomic conditions. In part, this is becausepositive injury findings may be easier to make in a downturn. Weexplore the evidence for Mexico, one of the main "new" antidumpingusing countries. Injury determination is also critica! in Mexico'santidumping policy, as a majority of unsuccessful complaints have beenrejected because of negative injury findings rather than negative findingsof dumping. Working with data from 1987 through 2000, we provideevidence for a relationship between macro-economic factors andantidumping complaints, including current account and exchange ratemovements, and both local and global general macroeconomicconditions.
Classification-JEL: F10; F13.
Keywords: antidumping; politica! economy of trade policy ; Mexico.
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