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Multiproduct firms and antidumping duties: Evidence from India.
- Source :
- Journal of International Trade & Economic Development; Oct2019, Vol. 28 Issue 7, p801-828, 28p, 15 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- With the growing availability of high-quality higher-dimension data in international trade, many new stylized facts have also emerged. One such stylized fact is that multiproduct firms play a significant role in international trade. In this paper, we investigate the effect of US antidumping duties on the exports of Indian multiproduct firms. In particular, we study whether US antidumping duties lead the Indian exporter to alter their product-scope to third country markets (aka to trade partners other than the US). Using a unique transaction-level data from India, we find that firms affected by US antidumping duties increased the number of products exported to other destinations by about 0.7 products, on average. This translates to a substantial 40% increase in the product-scope of these firms because a typical Indian exporting firm exported an average of 1.8 products to a given destination in our sample. We also find that firms whose products spanned multiple sectors drove most of this increase. However, we do not find any difference in the product-scope response of firms producing differentiated vs. those producing homogenous products. We find our results to be robust across various specification and sample size changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANTIDUMPING duties
MULTIPRODUCT firms
INTERNATIONAL trade
EXPORT duties
EVIDENCE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09638199
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of International Trade & Economic Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137843701
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2019.1604789