研討日期

2005年10月15日上午10:00 ~ 下午1:00

研討地點

台大經濟系館第二教室

討論文獻

題目

作者

文獻出處

Inflicting injury through product quality: how European antidumping policy disadvantages European producers

Vandenbussche

and Wauthy

European Journal of Political Economy

2001, Vol. 17, 101-116

報告人

林燕淑

參加人員

黃鴻、林燕淑、梁文榮、胡均立、吳世傑、王光正、邱俊榮、吳芝文、陳更生、許淑女英、張民忠、李玫郁、高國峰、李家銘、彭正浩、蔡明芳、林晏如、曾靜枝、王俊凱、王胤杰、涂光億

討論提要

European antidumping legislation allows a protectionist response whenever a foreign product “similar” to a European one is “dumped” on the European market. Thus, the foreign producer runs the risk of being subject to a price-undertaking under the EU antidumping laws. However, does the price-undertaking rule protect the domestic firms, and improving the domestic welfare?

結論

In this paper, the authors show how an industry characterized by vertical product differentiation may be affected by European antidumping policy. Using a two-stage model where quality choice is the form of price-undertakings protects domestic firms at the price competition stage, but is disadvantageous to domestic firms once the effect on quality choice is taken into account. European antidumping policies may therefore disadvantage European producers through reversals of quality ranking.

延伸研究

This paper assumes that the government will impose a price-undertaking, but EU antidumping policy can also involves an antidumping duty on foreign imports. Does an antidumping duty policy result in quality reversal? It can be the direction of extension.

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