The political economy of antidumping: A survey

Contrary to the implicit assumption motivating much of the work on the political economy of protection, antidumping, along with other forms of administered protection, is the primary form of discretionary protection for most countries. A sizable literature on the political economy of antidumping has developed in the last two decades that is distinctive in its explicit focus on institutional aspects of the granting and implementation of protection via the administrative mechanism. This paper provides an analytical overview of this literature.