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Moving up the Quality Ladder? EU-China Dynamics in Clothing

Vandenbussche, Hylke; Di Comite, Francesco; Rovegno, Laura - In: Journal of Economic Integration 28 (2013), pp. 303-326

We apply a simple method to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the model of Foster et al., (2008), we interpret the change in relative export prices and quantities sold in narrowly...

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Quality in Exports

Vandenbussche, Hylke - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2014

The measurement of quality is a difficult task given that quality typically is an unobserved product characteristic. In this paper we develop a new “Quality Indicator” based on a structural model with an identifiable quality parameter. We follow the methodology proposed by Di Comité, Thisse...

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Vert-zonal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition

Comite, Francesco Di; Thisse, Jean-François; … - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2011

The pattern of trade observed from firm-product-country data calls for a new generation of models. To address the …

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Verti-zontal differentiation in export markets

Di Comite, Francesco; Thisse, Jacques-François; … - In: Journal of International Economics 93 (2014) 1, pp. 50-66

Many trade models of monopolistic competition identify cost efficiency as the main determinant of firm performance in …

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Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition

Di Comite, Francesco; Thisse, Jacques-François; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The pattern of trade observed from firm-product-country data calls for a new generation of models. To address the …

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Carry-Along Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Blanchard, Emily; van Beveren, Ilke; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi … goods that are not produced by the firm, so-called Carry-Along Trade (CAT). The number of CAT products is strongly …

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Indian Antidumping Measures against China: Evidence from Monthly Trade Data

Vandenbussche, Hylke; Viegelahn, Christian - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2012

. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on which type of … trade impact of those measures that were imposed during the Great Recession, using monthly data on exports from China to … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of …

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Trade Policy and Innovation

Song, Huasheng - 2014

study firm level innovation under various trade policy shocks. We consider two countries where firms across countries are … heterogeneous in their innovation efficiencies. We find that the benefits of trade liberalization and trade protection differ across … firms. One of the main results we obtain is that trade protection hurts the productivity of highly efficient firms while it …

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Innovation, antidumping, and retaliation

Miyagiwa, Kaz; Song, Huasheng; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a North-South model of reciprocal antidumping (AD). We find that AD wars are winnable for the Northern firm if the Southern market is sufficiently small relative to the North’s. The South can avert AD war with the North by expanding the home market size. It may however trigger AD...

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Anti-Dumping Duties and the Byrd Amendment

Collie, David R; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The Byrd amendment to US anti-dumping law distributes the revenue from anti-dumping duties imposed on foreign firms to the domestic firms that lodged the complaint of dumping. This Paper shows that the presence of the Byrd Amendment can yield lower duties and greater welfare than in its absence....

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