Journal Articles

Forthcoming

• Bown, Chad P., “How export restrictions threaten economic security,” Journal of International Economic Law, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgaf021
• Blanchard, Emily J., Chad P. Bown, and Robert C. Johnson, “Global Value Chains and Trade Policy,” Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaf017

2024

• Bown, Chad P. and Dan Wang, “Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives v38, n4 (Fall 2024): 81-110. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.38.4.81
• Bown, Chad P., “Modern industrial policy and the World Trade Organization,” Annual Review of Economics v16 (2024): 243-270. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-100223-041958
• Bown, Chad P. and Kathleen Claussen, “The Rapid Response Labor Mechanism of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,” World Trade Review v23, n3 (July 2024): 335-362. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745624000053
• Blanchard, Emily J., Chad P. Bown, and Davin Chor, “Did Trump’s Trade War Impact the 2018 Election?” Journal of International Economics v148 (March 2024): 103891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103891
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• Claussen, Kathleen and Chad P. Bown, “Corporate Accountability by Treaty: The New North American Rapid Response Labor Mechanism,” American Journal of International Law v118, n1 (January 2024): 98-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2023.64
• Bown, Chad P., “How the United States solved South Korea’s problems with electric vehicle subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act,” Journal of World Trade  v58, n1 (January 2024): 1-34. https://doi.org/10.54648/trad2024001
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2023

• Bown, Chad P., “The WTO and vaccine supply chain resilience during a pandemic,” Journal of International Economic Law v26, n2 (June 2023): 343-362. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgad007
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2022

• Bown, Chad P., “COVID-19 vaccine supply chains and the Defense Production Act,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy v38, n4 (Winter 2022): 771-796. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac026
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• Bown, Chad P., “Trump ended WTO dispute settlement. Trade remedies are needed to fix it,” World Trade Review v21, n3 (June 2022): 312-329. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745622000039
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• Bown, Chad P. and Thomas J. Bollyky, “How COVID-19 vaccine supply chains emerged in the midst of a pandemic,” The World Economy v45, n2 (February 2022): 468-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13183
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• Bown, Chad P., “How COVID-19 medical supply shortages led to extraordinary trade and industrial policy,” Asian Economic Policy Review v17, n1 (January 2022): 114-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/aepr.12359
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2021

• Bown, Chad P., Aksel Erbahar, and Maurizio Zanardi, “Global Value Chains and the Removal of Trade Protection,” European Economic Review v140 (November 2021): 103937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103937
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• Bown, Chad P., “The US-China Trade War and Phase One Agreement,” Journal of Policy Modeling v43, n4 (July-August 2021): 805-843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2021.02.009
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2020

• Bown, Chad P., “How the United States marched the semiconductor industry into its trade war with China,” East Asian Economic Review v24, n4 (December 2020): 349-388. https://dx.doi.org/10.11644/KIEP.EAER.2020.24.4.384
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• Bollyky, Thomas J. and Chad P. Bown, “The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism: Only Cooperation Can End the Pandemic,” Foreign Affairs v99, n5 (September/October 2020): 96-109.
• Bown, Chad P. and Soumaya Keynes, “Why Trump Shot the Sheriffs: The End of WTO Dispute Settlement  1.0,” Journal of Policy Modeling v42, n4 (July-August 2020): 799-819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2020.03.006
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• Bown, Chad P., “Export Controls: America’s Other National Security Threat,” Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law v30, n2 (Spring 2020): 283-308. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djcil/vol30/iss2/4

2019

• Bown, Chad P. and Jennifer A. Hillman, “WTO’ing a Resolution to the China Subsidy Problem,” Journal of International Economic Law v22, n4 (December 2019): 557-578. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgz035
• Bown, Chad P. and Douglas A. Irwin, “Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System. And Why Decoupling From China Will Change Everything,” Foreign Affairs v98, n5 (September/October 2019): 125-136.
• Bown, Chad P., “The 2018 US-China Trade Conflict After 40 Years of Special Protection,” China Economic Journal v12, n2 (April 2019): 109-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2019.1608047
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2018

• Bown, Chad P., “Trade Policy Toward Supply Chains After the Great Recession,” IMF Economic Review v66, n3 (September 2018): 602-616. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-018-0061-9

2017

• Bown, Chad P. and Kara M. Reynolds, “Trade Agreements and Enforcement: Evidence from WTO Dispute Settlement,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy v9, n4 (November 2017): 64-100. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20150145
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• Bown, Chad P. and Rachel Brewster, “US – COOL Retaliation: The WTO’s Article 22.6 Arbitration,” World Trade Review v16, n2 (April 2017): 371-394. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745616000586

• Bown, Chad P. and Jennifer A. Hillman, “Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Argentina’s Beef Exports: The WTO’s US – Animals Dispute,” World Trade Review v16, n2 (April 2017): 253-277. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745616000537

• Bown, Chad P., “Mega-Regional Trade Agreements and the Future of the WTO,” Global Policy v8, n1 (February 2017): 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12391

2016

• Bagwell, Kyle, Chad P. Bown and Robert W. Staiger, “Is the WTO Passé?,” Journal of Economic Literature v54, n4 (December 2016): 1125-1231. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20151192

• Bown Chad P. and Patricia Tovar, “Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards: Stumbling Block Evidence from MERCOSUR,” Economics & Politics v28, n3 (November 2016): 262-294. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12083

• Bown, Chad P. and Jennifer A. Hillman, “Bird Flu, the OIE, and National Regulation: The WTO’s India – Agricultural Products Dispute,” World Trade Review v15, n2 (April 2016): 235-257. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745615000701

2015

• Bown, Chad P. and Kara M. Reynolds, “Trade Flows and Trade Disputes,” Review of International Organizations v10,  n2 (June 2015): 145-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-014-9208-2
  • Appendix to the working paper version contains an explanation of the freely accessible underlying Dataset
  • Underlying data and Stata programs to construct the tables and figures in the paper are freely accessible from the following website under ‘Supplementary Material (1)’

2014

• Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Emerging Economies, Trade Policy, and Macroeconomic Shocks,” Journal of Development Economics v111 (November 2014): 261-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.05.001
  • Underlying data and Stata programs freely accessible from the from the following Website

• Bown, Chad P. and Mark Wu, “Safeguards and the Perils of Preferential Trade Agreements: Dominican Republic – Safeguard Measures,” World Trade Review v13, n2 (April 2014): 179-227. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745614000111

• Bown, Chad P., “Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey: Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement,” The World Economy v37, n2 (February 2014): 193-218. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12114

2013

• Bown, Chad P., “How Different Are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from U.S. Trade Policies Toward Steel,” Review of Industrial Organization v42, n4 (June 2013): 449-481. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-013-9382-z

• Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates: Evidence from the Great Recession,” Journal of International Economics v90, n1 (May 2013): 50-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.12.001
  • Underlying data and Stata programs freely accessible from the from the following Website

• Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements: Evidence from Time-Varying Trade Policy,” American Economic Review v103, n2 (April 2013): 1071-1090. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.2.1071
  • Underlying data and Stata programs freely accessible from the from the following Website

• Bown, Chad P. and Petros C. Mavroidis, “One (Firm) Is Not Enough: A Legal-Economic Analysis of EC – Fasteners,” World Trade Review v12, n2 (April 2013): 243-271. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745612000547

• Bown, Chad P., “Emerging Economies and the Emergence of South-South Protectionism,” Journal of World Trade v47, n1 (February 2013): 1-44. https://doi.org/10.54648/trad2013001

2011

• Bown, Chad P., “Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009,” The World Economy v34, n12 (December 2011): 1955-1998. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118321362.ch5

• Bown, Chad P. and Patricia Tovar, “Trade Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards: Evidence from India’s Tariff Reform,” Journal of Development Economics v96, n1 (September 2011): 115-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.06.001

2010

• Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “China’s Export Growth and the China Safeguard: Threats to the World Trading System?” Canadian Journal of Economics v43, n4 (November 2010): 1353-1388. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5982.2010.01617.x

• Bown, Chad P. and Rachel McCulloch,  “Developing Countries, Dispute Settlement, and the Advisory Centre on WTO Law,” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development v19, n1 (March 2010): 33-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638190903327468

• Bown, Chad P. and Niall Meagher,  “Mexico – Olive Oil: Remedy without a Cause?“ World Trade Review v9, n1 (January 2010): 85-116. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745609990255

2009

• Bown, Chad P. and Rachel McCulloch,  “U.S.-Japan and U.S.-China Trade Conflict: Export Growth, Reciprocity, and the International Trading System,“ Journal of Asian Economics v20, n6 (November 2009): 669-687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asieco.2009.09.009

• Bown, Chad P., “U.S.-China Trade Conflicts and the Future of the WTO,” Fletcher Forum of World Affairs v33, n1 (Winter/Spring 2009): 27-48. http://hdl.handle.net/10427/77173

• Bown, Chad P. and Joel P. Trachtman, “Brazil – Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres: A Balancing Act,“ World Trade Review v8, n1 (January 2009): 85-135. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745608004096

2008

• Bown, Chad P., “The WTO and Antidumping in Developing Countries,”Economics and Politics v20, n2 (June 2008): 255-288. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0343.2008.00331.x

• Bown, Chad P. and Bernard M. Hoekman, “Developing Countries and Enforcement of Trade Agreements: Why Dispute Settlement Is Not Enough,” Journal of World Trade v42, n1 (February 2008): 177-203. https://doi.org/10.54648/trad2008007

• Bown, Chad P. and Alan O. Sykes, “The Zeroing Issue: A Critical Analysis of Softwood V,“ World Trade Review v7, n1 (January 2008): 121-142. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745607003564

• Bown, Chad P. and Jasper-Martijn Wauters, “United States – Anti-Dumping Measures on Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) from Mexico: A Legal-Economic Assessment of Sunset Reviews,“ World Trade Review  v7, n1 (January 2008): 269-298. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745607003576

2007

• Bown, Chad P. and Rachel McCulloch,  “Trade Adjustment in the WTO System: Are More Safeguards the Answer?” Oxford Review of Economic Policy  v23, n3 (Autumn 2007): 415-439. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grm018

• Bown, Chad P.,  “Canada’s Anti-dumping and Safeguard Policies: Overt and Subtle Forms of Discrimination,“  The World Economy v30, n9 (September 2007): 1457-1476. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.01051.x

• Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Trade Deflection and Trade Depression,” Journal of International Economics v72, n1 (May 2007): 176-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.09.005

2006

• Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Policy Externalities: How U.S. Antidumping Affects Japanese Exports to the E.U.,” European Journal of Political Economy v22, n3 (September 2006): 696-714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2005.12.004

2005

• Bown, Chad P. and Bernard M. Hoekman, “WTO Dispute Settlement and the Missing Developing Country Cases: Engaging the Private Sector,“Journal of International Economic Law v8, n4 (December 2005): 861-890. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgi049

• Bown, Chad P. and Rachel McCulloch, “U.S. Trade Policy and the Adjustment Process,” IMF Staff Papers v52 (September 2005): 107-128. https://www.imf.org/External/Pubs/FT/staffp/2005/03/bown.htm

• Bown, Chad P., “Participation in WTO Dispute Settlement: Complainants, Interested Parties and Free Riders,” World Bank Economic Review v19, n2 (2005): 287-310. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhi009

• Bown, Chad P., “Trade Remedies and World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement: Why Are So Few Challenged?” Journal of Legal Studies  v34, n2 (June 2005): 515-555. https://doi.org/10.1086/429849

2004

• Bown, Chad P., “On the Economic Success of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement,” The Review of Economics and Statistics  v86, n3 (August 2004): 811-823. https://doi.org/10.1162/0034653041811680

• Bown, Chad P., “Trade Policy under the GATT/WTO: Empirical Evidence of the Equal Treatment Rule,” Canadian Journal of Economics  v37, n3 (August 2004): 678-720. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0008-4085.2004.00243.x

• Bown, Chad P., “Trade Disputes and the Implementation of Protection under the GATT: An Empirical Assessment,” Journal of International Economics  v62, n2 (March 2004): 263-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(03)00053-9

• Bown, Chad P., “Developing Countries as Plaintiffs and Defendants in GATT/WTO Trade Disputes,” The World Economy v27, n1 (January 2004): 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2004.00588.x

2003

• Bown, Chad P., Bernard M. Hoekman and Caglar Ozden, “The Pattern of U.S. Antidumping: The Path from Initial Filing to WTO Dispute Settlement,” World Trade Review v2, n3 (November 2003): 349-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474560400148X

• Bown, Chad P. and Rachel McCulloch, “Nondiscrimination and the WTO Agreement on Safeguards,” World Trade Review v2, n3 (November 2003): 327-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745604001491

• Blonigen, Bruce A. and Chad P. Bown, “Antidumping and Retaliation Threats,” Journal of International Economics v60, n2 (August 2003): 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1996(02)00055-7

2002

• Bown, Chad P., “The Economics of Trade Disputes, the GATT’s Article XXIII and the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding,” Economics and Politics v14, n3 (November 2002): 283-323. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0343.00109

• Bown, Chad P., “Why Are Safeguards under the WTO So Unpopular?” World Trade Review v1, n1 (March 2002): 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474560100101X