The Incidence of the U.S.-China Solar Trade War

Houde, Sébastien; Wang, Wenjun

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4441906

2023

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4441906

|View full text |Cite

Preprint

The Incidence of the U.S.-China Solar Trade War

Sébastien Houde

Wenjun Wang

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2024

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

References 71 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

Adapting to Competition: Solar PV Innovation in Europe and the Impact of the ‘China Shock’

Andres

2024

Environ Resource Econ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Low cost solar energy is key to enabling the transition away from fossil fuels. Despite this, the European Union followed the United States’ example in imposing anti-dumping tariffs on solar panel imports from China in 2013, arguing that Chinese panels were unfairly subsidised and harmed its domestic industry. This paper examines the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level innovation in solar photovoltaic technology by European firms using a sample of 10,137 firms in 15 EU countries over the period 1999–2020. I show that firms which were exposed to higher import competition innovated more if they had a relatively small existing stock of innovation, but less if their historical knowledge stock fell within the top 10th percentile of firms in the sample. This suggests that newer firms were more able to respond to increased competition by innovating, while firms with a large historical stock of innovation may have been locked into old technological paradigms. As firms with a smaller knowledge stock tended to innovate more overall, trade with China appears to have been beneficial in encouraging innovation among the most innovative firms. However, I also find evidence that import competition increased the probability of exit among firms in the sample.

show abstract

Adapting to Competition: Solar PV Innovation in Europe and the Impact of the ‘China Shock’

Andres

2024

Environ Resource Econ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

customersupport@researchsolutions.com

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

The Incidence of the U.S.-China Solar Trade War

Cited by 1 publication

References 71 publications

Adapting to Competition: Solar PV Innovation in Europe and the Impact of the ‘China Shock’

Adapting to Competition: Solar PV Innovation in Europe and the Impact of the ‘China Shock’

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About