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Markups in the euro area and the US over the period 1981-2004: a comparison of 50 sectors
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Vermeulen, Philip - 2008
This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios or markups for 50 sectors in 8 euro area countries and the …
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011
Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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Price Competition with Information Disparities in a Vertically Differentiated Duopoly
Cavaliere, Alberto - 2004
differentiation, informed consumers exert a positive externality on the purchasers of the high quality good as its price decreases … when the share of informed consumers decreases. Considering also that the price of the low quality good increases with the … with pessimistic consumers we can explain demand collapses and insensitivity to price changes due to consumer suspicions …
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Höhere Qualität von Lebensmitteln durch gesetzlich geschützte Herkunftsangaben
von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Gay, Hubertus - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 24, pp. 377-382
Die Qualität von Lebensmitteln - insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Güte der Inhaltsstoffe und die Herstellungsart - ist von Verbrauchern nur schwer überprüfbar. Um die Glaubwürdigkeit von Qualitätsversprechen zu erhöhen und die Unsicherheit in der Beziehung zwischen Herstellern und...
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Is China climbing up the quality ladder? Estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database
Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011
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...
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Intra-industry Trade between European Union and Transition Economies: Does Income Distribution Matter?
Gabrisch, Hubert; Segnana, Maria Luigia - 2002
EU-TE trade is increasingly characterized by intra-industry trade. For some countries (Czech Republic), the share of intra-industry trade in total trade with the EU approaches 60 percent. The decomposition of intra-industry trade into horizontal and vertical shares reveals overwhelming vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653023
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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade. Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo-H-O model based on factor endowment and an ?economic...
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Quality of Service, Efficiency, and Scale in Network Industries: An Analysis of European Electricity Distribution
Growitsch, Christian; Jamasb, Tooraj; Pollitt, Michael G. - 2005
Quality of service is of major economic significance in natural monopoly infrastructure industries and is increasingly addressed in regulatory schemes. However, this important aspect is generally not reflected in efficiency analysis of these industries. In this paper we present an efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276194
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Moving up the Quality ladder? EU-China Trade Dynamics in Clothing
Vandenbussche, Hylke; Di Comite, Francesco; Rovegno, Laura - 2011
UN Comtrade data we find that European varieties exported to the US typically sell for a higher price than identical … Chinese varieties exported to the US, but this price gap is narrowing. Despite rising prices, Chinese varieties are gaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313381
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Intra-industry trade between European Union and Transition Economies. Does income distribution matter?
Gabrisch, Hubert; Segnana, Maria Luigia - 2002
EU-TE trade is increasingly characterised by intra-industry trade. For some countries (Czech Republic), the share of intra-industry trade in total trade with the EU approaches 60 percent. The decomposition of intra-industry trade into horizontal and vertical shares reveals overwhelming vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316398