quality upgrading is an important motive for vertically integrating. Firms integrate suppliers when the quality premium … integration changes suppliers' production behavior. A given supplier's actions are less geared towards increasing quantity and …-per-kilo buyers. Finally, we show that firms and individual plants that use integrated suppliers at the time of production ultimately …

network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different … locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to search more and find better suppliers. This in turn drives down the …

under competition with non-deceptive counterfeiting and deceptive counterfeiting, respectively, as well as under monopoly …

at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …

impact of low-wage competition on U.S. manufacturing employment and output. Markets characterized by relatively shorter … quality ladders are associated with larger employment and output declines resulting from low-wage competition …

(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 …