Anti-dumping, intra-industry trade and quality reversals

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We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two different countries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficient in terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger and endowed with a relatively higher income. The unique (risk-dominant) Nash equilibrium involves intra-industry trade where the foreign producer manufactures a good of higher quality than the domestic firm. This equilibrium is characterized by unilateral dumping by the foreign firm into the domestic economy. Two instruments of anti-dumping (AD) policy are examined, namely, a price undertaking (PU) and an anti-dumping duty. We show that, when firms? cost asymmetries are low and countries differ substantially in size, a PU leads to a quality reversal in the international market, which gives a rationale for the domestic government to enact AD law. We also establish an equivalence result between the effects of an AD duty and a PU.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1365

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
• Subject: anti-dumping duty ; intra-industry trade ; price undertaking ; product quality ; quality reversals ; Antidumping ; Intraindustrieller Handel ; Spieltheorie ; Produktqualität ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Moraga-González, José Luis ; Viaene, Jean-Marie
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18728