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Product quality plays a vital role in international trade flows, but the measurement of quality remains a challenge because true quality is usually unobserved in trade data. In this study, we propose a straightforward measurement of quality – the weighted-income index – and compare it with...
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endogenous international price movements that are consistent with both the "old" and the "new" facts. In this mechanism, firms … operating in a monopolistically competitive environment adjust price and quality of their products in response to technological … shocks. This model is consistent with the old facts if price levels are not adjusted for quality. Instead, if quality …
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This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...
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This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...
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This paper explores the role of information transmission and misaligned interests across levels of government in explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative...
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