US Antidumping Petitions and Revealed Comparative Advantage of Shrimp Exporting Countries

摘要：

　　The paper explores the trade competitiveness of seven major shrimp exporting countries,namely Vietnam,China,Thailand,Ecuador,India,Indonesia and Mexico,to the USA.Specifically,we investigate whether the United States (US) antidumping petitions impact upon the bilateral revealed comparative advantage (RCA) indexes for each of the seven shrimp exporting countries with the USA.Monthly data from January 2003 to December 2014 and the panel data model are used to examine the determinants of the RCA for the shrimp exporting countries.The empirical results show the shrimp exporting countries have superior competitiveness against the shrimp market in the USA.Moreover,the RCA indexes are significantly negatively influenced by shrimp prices,and are positively affected by US income per capita.However,the EMS (Early Mortality Syndrome) shrimp disease,domestic US shrimp quantity,exchange rate,and US antidumping laws are found to have no significant impacts on the RCA indexes.In terms of policy implications,the USA should try to reduce production costs of shrimp in the US market instead of imposing antidumping petitions,and the shrimp exporting countries should maintain their comparative advantage and diversify into new markets.

关键词： Shrimp antidumping revealed comparative advantage panel data model

作者: Chia-Lin Chang Michael McAleer Dang-Khoa Nguyen

作者单位: Department of Applied Economics and Department of Finance National Chung Hsing University,Taiwan Department of Quantitative Finance National Tsing Hua University,Taiwan International Master Program of Argriculture National Chung Hsing University,Taiwan

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: ICEFS2017(International Conference on Economics, Finance and Statistics 2017) (2017经济、金融与统计国际会议)

会议地点: 香港

会议语种:英文

页码: 51-70

在线出版日期: 2017-01-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）