Aquilante, Tommaso (2016) Bureaucrats or Politicians? Political Parties and Antidumping in the US. Discussion Paper. University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK.
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Abstract
Antidumping (AD) is the most widely used contingent protection measure. In the United States, key decisions on AD are delegated to the International Trade Commission (ITC), an independent agency composed of six non-elected commissioners. Using a newly collected dataset, I study the determinants of all final ITC votes on AD during the 1980-2010 period. Contrary to the view that ITC commissioners are bureaucrats who simply follow technical rules, I find that their decisions crucially depend on which party has appointed them (the selection effect) and on the trade policy interests of key senators in that party (the pressure effect): whether (Democratic) Republican-appointed commissioners vote in favor of AD depends crucially on whether the petitioning industry is key (in terms of employment) in the states represented by leading (Democratic) Republican senators.
JEL: D72, F10, F13, F14, P16
| Type of Work: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| School/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Social Sciences |
| Number of Pages: | 36 |
| Department: | Birmingham Business School |
| Date: | 24 February 2016 |
| Series/Collection Name: | Birmingham Business School Discussion Paper Series |
| Keywords: | Antidumping Policy, Political Parties |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) |
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| Copyright Holders: | The Authors and the University of Birmingham |
| ID Code: | 2117 |
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