Curzi, Daniele; Raimondi, Valentina; Olper, Alessandro - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
This paper analyzes the extent to which the reduction of import tariffs ‒ as a measure of import competition ‒ affects … frontier’ model (Aghion et al., 2005) who predicts a non-monotonic relation between competition and innovation. Quality is …-monotonic relationship between competition and quality upgrading, with varieties close to the world frontier more likely to upgrade quality …