Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74856 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 176
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Transition Economics, Leuven
Abstract: 
This paper empirically investigates the effects of US safeguard protection on steel imports in 2002 on the mark-ups of EU steel producers. We identify a large panel of European steel producers between 1995 and 2004 affected by the safeguards. Using the Roeger method, our results show that US safeguards significantly reduced EU firms?mark-ups. Single-product EU steel firms suffered relatively more from the protection than multi-product firms. Controlling for firm heterogeneity, these results are robust to alternative specifications. Our evidence further suggests that US protection resulted in some rerouting of European steel especially towards China, aggravating the situation on the Chinese steel market and ultimately resulting in Chinese trade protection of steel imports.
Subjects: 
Firm data
Markups
Safeguards
Steel industry
Trade deflection
JEL: 
F13
L13
L61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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