The chilling effects of unsuccessful antidumping investigations on firm export dynamics
研究了2000-2015年间美国未成功的反倾销调查如何通过增加贸易政策不确定性，显著减少中国企业在被调查产品上的新出口进入和现有出口退出，导致出口商数量和出口额下降。
This paper studies the aftermath of “unsuccessful” antidumping investigations that failed to achieve positive antidumping findings or antidumping duties against foreign exporters. While failed investigations might be viewed as benign, “unsuccessful” investigations may nonetheless elevate trade policy uncertainty since investigated products face dramatically increased probabilities of future antidumping investigations. Our analysis of Chinese firm export dynamics following “unsuccessful” U.S. antidumping investigations between 2000 and 2015 uncovers strong reductions in firm export dynamics - counts of new export entry and incumbent exit in “unsuccessfully” investigated products are both diminished by U.S. antidumping investigations. The combined effects of these responses lead to drops in the number of active exporters, and declines in export values for the investigated products. Since recent work on firm export dynamics shows how extensive margin changes facilitate improvements in export firm productivity and the product quality enjoyed by consumers, a benign view of “unsuccessful” antidumping investigations is called into question.