Antidumping Protection hurts Exporters:Firm-level evidence from France

Jozef Konings and Hylke Vandenbussche ()

LICOS Discussion Papers from LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, K.U.Leuven

Abstract: This paper empirically evaluates the effects of antidumping measures on the exports of protected firms. While antidumping protection raises the domestic sales of the more “traditional?non-exporting firms on the protected market with about 5%, it negatively affects the firm-level exports of similar products as the protected ones. Export sales of protected firms fall by almost 8% compared to a relevant control group of unprotected firms. The drop in firm-level exports more than doubles for firms that are global, i.e. firms with foreign affiliates. Measured at the product-level, extra-EU exports of goods protected by antidumping fall by 36% while exports to target countries fall by as much as 66% following protection. Protection also affects the extensive margin of exporters but to a lesser extent. Initial exporters face a marginally higher probability to stop exporting during protection compared to unprotected firms. Finally, we find that the productivity of exporters falls while that of non-exporters rises during antidumping protection. We offer a number of plausible explanations for our findings arising from the heterogeneous firm literature. We also discuss the importance of our findings for policy.

Keywords: Antidumping; firm-level exports; intensive margin; extensive margin; productivity; dif-in dif (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 L O30 C2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-int and nep-reg
Date: 2009
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