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Vertical Specialization and the Quality of Infrastructure
World Trade Organization - 2003
interdependent, and the O-ring theory of production is such a theory. The paper first presents and modifies this model and then … to trade barriers and infrastructure quality and cost of infrastructural services. The relative importance of trade … barriers and various indicators of infrastructure vary between sectors. Vertical specialization in the electronics sector …
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Vertical specialization and the quality of infrastructure
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2004 - Manuscript date: December 2003
interdependent, and the O-ring theory of production is such a theory. The paper first presents and modifies this model and then … to trade barriers and infrastructure quality and cost of infrastructural services. The relative importance of trade … barriers and various indicators of infrastructure vary between sectors. Vertical specialization in the electronics sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205555
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Inside the white box : unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization
Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021
This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433943
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Inside the white box : unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization
Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2020
This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533531
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Firm Size and the Intensive Margin of Import Demand
Blaum, Joaquin - 2018
We use French microdata to test an ubiquitous property of firm-based models of importing. When firm efficiency is factor neutral and input prices and qualities are common across firms, firm size should have no effect on expenditure shares on the different products and varieties sourced, holding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931163
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Patterns of Vertical Intra-Industry Trade Considering Quality Difference : S.Korea Case
Kang, Minsung - 2022
The simultaneous exports and imports within same industries is well known as the intra-industry trade (IIT). Since the pioneering empirical literatures of Balassa (1966)1) and Grubel and Lloyd (1975)2), bunch of empirical and theoretical papers studied this new paradigm of international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241145
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Technology and Technical Barriers to Trade in a Vertically Differentiated Market
Ryu, Han Eol; Sung, Yeolyong - 2023
This paper analyzes the economic effects of TBT under the existence of technological asymmetry between countries. It first defines TBTs and shows the current status and evolution of TBTs using descriptive measures. In addition, the paper also compares the technology levels of Korea to those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259936
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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, Gábor; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008935837
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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 - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129033
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Quality Differentiation and Trade Intermediation
Tang, Heiwai - 2014
Existing studies show that intermediaries can help verify or screen product quality for buyers. This paper examines this claim both theoretically and empirically in the context of international trade. We develop a heterogeneous firm model that features vertical and horizontal differentiation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064582