We study the impact on the skill premium of increases in the quality of goods consumed by households ("trading up …"). Our empirical work shows that high- quality goods are more intensive in skilled labor than low-quality goods and that … household spending on high-quality goods rises with income. We propose a model consistent with these facts. This model accounts …

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find … a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia … and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of …

We show that international trade in goods is the main determinant of international equity portfolios and offers a …

Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) have reinvigorated an old literature on the link between home bias in the goods market and … home bias in the asset market by arguing that trade costs in the goods market can account for the observed portfolio home … the implied home bias are close to zero, casting significant doubt on a meaningful link between home bias in the goods and …

preferences for local public goods, product markets may provide an analogous incentive to sort into a community whose consumers … tend to share his preferences in private goods. Using zip code level data on chain restaurants and restaurants overall …