Journal Articles

Forthcoming

• Bown, Chad P., “How export restrictions threaten economic security,” Journal of International Economic Law, forthcoming.
• Blanchard, Emily J., Chad P. Bown, and Robert C. Johnson, “Global Value Chains and Trade Policy,” Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

2024

• Bown, Chad P. and Dan Wang, “Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives v38, n4 (Fall 2024): 81-110.
• Bown, Chad P., “Modern industrial policy and the World Trade Organization,” Annual Review of Economics v16 (2024): 243-270.
• 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.
• 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.
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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.
• 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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.
• 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.
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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.

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.
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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.

• 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.

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

2016

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

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

• 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.

2015

• Bown, Chad P. and Kara M. Reynolds, “Trade Flows and Trade Disputes,” Review of International Organizations v10,  n2 (June 2015): 145-177.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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

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.

• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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

2011

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

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

2008

• Bown, Chad P., “The WTO and Antidumping in Developing Countries,”Economics and Politics v20, n2 (June 2008): 255-288.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• Bown, Chad P. and Meredith A. Crowley, “Trade Deflection and Trade Depression,” Journal of International Economics v72, n1 (May 2007): 176-201.

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.

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.

• Bown, Chad P. and Rachel McCulloch, “U.S. Trade Policy and the Adjustment Process,” IMF Staff Papers v52 (September 2005): 107-128.

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

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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.

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

• Blonigen, Bruce A. and Chad P. Bown, “Antidumping and Retaliation Threats,”Journal of International Economics v60, n2 (August 2003): 249-273.

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.

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