Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data

This article investigates how sectorial characteristics determine the probability of industries receiving an anti-dumping (AD) duty, delving into the economic literature on the political economy of protection, market competition and trade reform in Brazil. By focusing on when the AD was granted, the...

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Main Author: Glauco Avelino Sampaio Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2014-05-01
Series:EconomiA
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758014000228
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description This article investigates how sectorial characteristics determine the probability of industries receiving an anti-dumping (AD) duty, delving into the economic literature on the political economy of protection, market competition and trade reform in Brazil. By focusing on when the AD was granted, the article concentrates on the objective economic motivations for an industry to claim protection and which are instrumental to the decision of the trade defense authority. The empirical strategy involves a panel of 93 industrial sectors from 1996 to 2007 to create four groups of explanatory variables (collective action/competition, economic performance, factors of production, trade coefficients), reflecting their structural characteristics, market competition, economic performance and political mobilization. The econometric specifications apply binary dependent variable models (logit) with cluster robust and population-averaged error correction. The results show that structure of trade (imports volume and tariffs), economic performance (productivity and investments), and factor content (labor and natural resources) influence the probability of the AD. Political economy characteristics (captured by interactive terms) are also influential in determining the measure.
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spelling doaj.art-c1a59e3007fd49269913e9d194c4ebfd2022-12-22T00:51:00ZengEmerald PublishingEconomiA1517-75802014-05-0115220622710.1016/j.econ.2014.07.003Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel dataGlauco Avelino Sampaio OliveiraThis article investigates how sectorial characteristics determine the probability of industries receiving an anti-dumping (AD) duty, delving into the economic literature on the political economy of protection, market competition and trade reform in Brazil. By focusing on when the AD was granted, the article concentrates on the objective economic motivations for an industry to claim protection and which are instrumental to the decision of the trade defense authority. The empirical strategy involves a panel of 93 industrial sectors from 1996 to 2007 to create four groups of explanatory variables (collective action/competition, economic performance, factors of production, trade coefficients), reflecting their structural characteristics, market competition, economic performance and political mobilization. The econometric specifications apply binary dependent variable models (logit) with cluster robust and population-averaged error correction. The results show that structure of trade (imports volume and tariffs), economic performance (productivity and investments), and factor content (labor and natural resources) influence the probability of the AD. Political economy characteristics (captured by interactive terms) are also influential in determining the measure.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758014000228Political economyAnti-dumpingTrade policyCompetitionIndustrial studies
spellingShingle Glauco Avelino Sampaio Oliveira
Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
EconomiA
Political economy
Anti-dumping
Trade policy
Competition
Industrial studies
title Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
title_full Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
title_fullStr Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
title_full_unstemmed Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
title_short Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
title_sort industrial determinants of anti dumping in brazil protection competition and performance an analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
topic Political economy
Anti-dumping
Trade policy
Competition
Industrial studies
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758014000228
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