Did Us Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel Producers?

LICOS Discussion Paper No. 176/2006

37 Pages Posted: 28 Nov 2006

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Hylke Vandenbussche

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), CEPR

Ziga Zarnic

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

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Date Written: August 2006

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.

Keywords: Firm data, Markups, Safeguards, Steel industry, Trade deflection

JEL Classification: F13, L13, L61

Suggested Citation

Vandenbussche, Hylke and Zarnic, Ziga, Did Us Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel Producers? (August 2006). LICOS Discussion Paper No. 176/2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=947447 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.947447

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