NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TRADE DIVERSION AND THE INITIATION EFFECT: A CASE STUDY OF U.S. TRADE REMEDIES IN AGRICULTURE Colin A. Carter Sandro Steinbach Working Paper 24745 http://www.nber.org/papers/w24745 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2018 Carter: University of California Davis and member of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, 3108 Social Sciences and Humanities, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 (email:
[email protected]); Steinbach: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Center for Economic Research, Zurichbergstrasse 18, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland (email:
[email protected]). The corresponding author of this paper is Sandro Steinbach. We acknowledge financial support from the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. We are also grateful to Yolanda Pan and Yixing Tian for research assistance. We also thank participants at the NBER Agriculture and Trade Conference for their comments on this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications. © 2018 by Colin A. Carter and Sandro Steinbach. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Trade Diversion and the Initiation Effect: A Case Study of U.S. Trade Remedies in Agriculture Colin A.