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Author-Name: Chia-Lin Chang
Author-Email: changchialin@nchu.edu.tw
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Applied Economics Department of Finance National Chung Hsing University Taichung, Taiwan.
Author-Name: Michael McAleer
Author-Workplace-Name:
 Department of Quantitative Finance National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and Econometric Institute, Erasmus 
	School of Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands and Department of Quantitative 
	Economics Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Author-Name: Dang-Khoa Nguyen
Author-Workplace-Name: International Master Program of Agriculture National Chung Hsing University Taichung, Taiwan.

Title: US Antidumping Petitions and Revealed Comparative Advantage of Shrimp Exporting Countries
Abstract: 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.
Classification-JEL: C23, F13, P45, Q17.
Keywords: Shrimp, Antidumping, Revealed comparative advantage, Panel data model.
Length: 19 pages 
Creation-Date: 2016-10
Number: 2016-17
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