研討日期

2006年5月20日上午10:00 ~ 下午1:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院第二會議室

討論文獻

題目

作者

文獻出處

Do safeguard tariffs and antidumping duties open or close technology gaps?

Meredith A. Crowley

Journal of International Economics 68 (2006)

報告人

彭正浩

參加人員

黃鴻、梁文榮、林燕淑、邱俊榮、胡均立、吳芝文、王光正、林晏如、張明忠、陳盈秀、許淑瑛、彭正浩、高國峰、曾靜枝、李玫郁、王胤杰、蔡明芳、李依珊

討論提要

This paper attempts to explain how differences in the breadth of trade protection could have affected technology adoption by domestic and foreign industries. Understanding this difference is important because the use of antidumping duties and safeguard measures is spreading around the world.

Protection under a multicountry safeguard tariff and a country-specific antidumping duty changes the equilibrium in the technology adoption game. Country-specific antidumping duties advance the date of technology adoption for both the import competing firm and the second foreign firm. In contrast, a multicountry safeguard tariff advances the date of technology adoption by the import-competing firm and delays the date of technology adoption by the second foreign firm.

結論

The contribution of the analysis is to show how firm-level technology adoption changes under tariffs of different country-breadth. This paper shows that a country-specific tariff like an antidumping duty induces both domestic import-competing firms and foreign exporting firms to adopt a new technology earlier than they would under free trade. In contrast, a broadly-applied tariff like a safeguard can accelerate technology adoption by a domestic import-competing firm, but will slow-down technology adoption by foreign exporting firms. Because safeguard tariffs can delay the foreign firm’s adoption of new technology, the worldwide welfare costs associated with using them may be larger than is generally believed.