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All aboard : the effects of port development

Ducruet, César; Juhász, Réka; Nagy, Dávid Krisztián; … - 2020

This paper examines the effects of port development on the economy. By using scarce local land intensively, ports put … – a technology that substantially increased land requirements at the port – to estimate the effects of port development … the causal effect of the shipping boom caused by containerization on local population is zero – port development increases …

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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading

Donati, Dante - 2022

Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...

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Term length and the quality of appointments

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

Consider a principal who appoints an agent. Let the agent potentially serve for a sufficiently long time that one principal is replaced by another over this period. Suppose also that the quality of the agent appointed increases with the effort the incumbent principal devotes to hiring. Then the...

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Inside the white box : unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization

Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021

This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...

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Quality distortions in monopolistic competition

Kichko, Sergei; Ozhegova, Alina; Tarasov, Alexander - 2024

In this paper, we explore how heterogeneous firms decide on vertical and horizontal qualities of their products. We show that if increasing the product qualities appears to be relatively costly, more productive firms choose higher vertical quality but lower horizontal quality. We also document...

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Quality certificates alleviate consumer aversion to sponsored search advertising

Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng - 2022

We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e-commerce platform. Our research design is based on a field experiment which randomizes the salience of ad disclosure to consumers, and a natural experiment which eradicates a...

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The efficiency of educational production : a comparison of the Nordic countries with other OECD countries

Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranæs, Torben - 2015

Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...

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Ports vs. roads : infrastructure, market access and regional outcomes

Bonadio, Barthélémy - 2024 - This version: August 2024

international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … elasticity of route switching governs the relative gains from port vs road improvements. I find that returns of improving ports …

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The impact of technological change on new trade : evidence from the container revolution

Bernhofen, Daniel M.; El-Sahli, Zouheir; Kneller, Richard - 2016

This paper exploits exogenous features of the 1960s/70s container revolution to estimate the impact of the introduction of refrigerated containers (or reefers) on new trade of temperature sensitive products. Our identification strategy is justified by a historical narrative which suggests that...

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...

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