There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China poses a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...

La industria de las papas prefritas congeladas se caracteriza por un alto nivel de concentración y un importante grado de diferenciación, en términos de los productos disponibles, su presentación y contenido nutricional. El trabajo analiza el mercado de papas prefritas congeladas de la...

El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar la demanda de los hogares de la ciudad de Mar del Plata (Argentina) por papas prefritas congeladas (PPC) y evaluar el grado de sustituibilidad entre los productos, estimando un modelo de elección discreta con coeficientes aleatorios. Se emplean datos...

La industria argentina de papas prefritas congeladas (PPC) es altamente diferenciada y concentrada, siendo escasos los estudios que analizan el mercado. El trabajo evalúa el efecto provocado por cambios hipotéticos en la estructura del mercado marplatense de PPC sobre los precios, las ventas y...

El presente trabajo trata de cuantificar el valor de marca y el posicionamiento de las entidades financieras en dos mercados diferentes: consumidores finales y microempresas. Así mismo, se busca identificar las dimensiones de imagen de mayor peso a la hora de elegir a una entidad como la de...

We develop an input-output methodology to estimate how Chinese exports affect the country’s total domestic value added (DVA) and employment for 1995 and 2002. Total DVA generated by exports is obtained by subtracting all direct and indirect imported intermediate goods from the gross value of...

This study investigates the effects of stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in the South on innovation, skills choice, wage inequality and patterns of production based on a North-South general-equilibrium model with foreign direct investment (FDI) and international outsourcing....

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms’...

Increases in the technological sophistication of some emerging economies, linked, in part, to shifts in the distribution of innovation activities from developed to emerging economies has attracted a lot of attention. Whether emerging economies will catch up with developed regions in terms of...