We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in …-inefficiency of the price/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with …

extends cue diagnosticity theory and the brand identity literature by showing the power of brand identity cues in predicting …

price and quantity information to estimate the quality of products exported to the U.S. Higher quality is assigned to … products with higher market shares conditional on price. The estimated qualities reveal substantial heterogeneity in product …

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find … export goods are substantially different across countries at the same HS 6-digit code. -- Quality vs Price competition …