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Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the … their agri-food products from a wider range of suppliers), while geographical concentration increases at the intensive … food alerts at the EU border that had never been exploited before. After coding it into HS8 categories, we regress the …

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Food and the GST.

Quiggin, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1992

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Financial Frictions, Product Quality, and International Trade

Crinò, Rosario; Ogliari, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

An influential literature has documented large differences across countries and industries in terms of product quality. It is important to understand the determinants of these differences, because the production of high-quality goods influences key aspects of economic performance. In this paper,...

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A Linder Hypothesis for Foreign Direct Investment

Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study patterns of FDI in a multi-country world economy. First, we present evidence for a broad sample of countries that firms direct FDI disproportionately to markets with income levels similar to their home market. Then we develop a model featuring non-homothetic preferences for quality and...

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Coordination in Markets with Consumption Externalities: The Role of Advertising and Product Quality

Pastine, Ivan; Pastine, Tuvana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper studies advertising in vertically differentiated product markets with positive consumption externalities. In markets with consumption externalities, the value of the product to the consumer depends on the purchasing decisions of other consumers. In such markets, we show that firms...

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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

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Product Quality and Worker Quality

Abowd, John M; Kramarz, Francis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work-force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...

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Global versus Local Competition

Legros, Patrick; Stahl, Konrad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We analyse the impact of increased outside opportunities brought to consumers by access to a global market on local market performance under monopoly versus oligopoly. If consumers have to choose once where to shop we show that under all forms of organizing the local market, increased...

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A Quantitative Analysis of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs

Galenianos, Manolis; Gavazza, Alessandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We develop a theoretical framework to study illicit drugs markets and we estimate it using data on purchases of crack cocaine. Buyers are searching for high-quality drugs, but they determine drugs' quality (i.e., their purity) only after consuming them. Hence, sellers can rip off first-time...

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Export Destinations and Input Prices

Bastos, Paulo; Silva, Joana; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to richer...

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