期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：We analyze the relationship between Antidumping (AD) Protection and the productivity of
EU domestic firms in import-competing industries. For this purpose we identify a panel of
domestic firms between 1993 and 2003 that at some point during this period are affected by
AD initiations. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find that AD measures result
in improvements of measured productivity for domestic firms. Total Factor Productivity
(TFP) of protected firms increases by 2% in the short-run and by 5% to 13% in the longrun.
However, there is substantial heterogeneity across firms. The effect of protection
depends on the initial ¡°distance-to-the-frontier firm¡± in the industry. While protection raises
TFP of ¡°laggard¡± domestic firms, it lowers TFP for ¡°efficient¡± firms that operate close to
the efficiency frontier. These results are consistent with recent theoretical work supporting
the view that trade policy, under certain conditions, can induce technological catching-up.
While this paper evaluates the effectiveness of AD policy it does not engage in a welfare
analysis.
