Import price elasticity tends to be under-estimated due to the omission of quality effects. This dissertation aims to … fill this gap by analyzing 1) how quality effects affect the estimation of import price elasticity, 2) the impact of … quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy and 3) the limitations pertaining to the estimation of the true …

Traditional trade models ignoring the dimension of product quality generally lead to excessively low trade price … obtained by controlling product quality in trade equations. To do so, we have estimated trade equations including a product … quality proxy derived from survey data. Our estimation results, based on panel data for the four main EU member States …

In many cases consumers cannot observe firms' investment in quality or safety, but have only beliefs on the average … quality of the industry. In addition, the outcome of the collective investment game of the firms may be stochastic since firms … consumers' subjective perceptions of the industry level of quality matters, the regulator may make information available to …

environmental quality of the product; and, iii) the magnitude of the final demand for a green variant of the product. The paper …

comparable indicators. We provide a dataset of indicators of quality of student achievement (IQSA) for 103 countries/areas in …