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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 …

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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,...

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Inside the white box : unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization

Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2020

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Vertical specialization and gains from trade

Alexander, Patrick D. - 2017

Multi-stage production is widely recognized as an important feature of the modern global economy. This feature has been incorporated into many state-of-the-art quantitative trade models, and has been shown to deliver significant additional gains from international trade. Meanwhile,...

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Vertical specialization, tariff shirking and trade

Ma, Alyson; Van Assche, Ari - 2014

The core idea behind the paper is that trade policy matters for the organization of global value chains, a notion largely neglected by economists but which has important implications for our understanding of trade and the international transmission of trade policy shocks. We develop a...

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Fragmented production : regionalization of trade?

Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2004 - Manuscript date: August 2003

This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of … in low-cost countries will only have an incentive to upgrade quality if adequately efficient infrastructure, logistics …

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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...

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Agglomeration, vertical specialization, and the strength of industrial linkages

Kranich, Jan (contributor) - 2008

This paper picks up the seminal model of Venables (1996) and provides a quantifying concept for the sectoral coherence in vertical-linkage models of the New Economic Geography. Based upon an alternative approach to solve the model and to determine critical trade cost values, this paper focuses...

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The organization of international trade

Boddin, Dominik; Stähler, Frank - 2018 - Version of November 19, 2018

This paper discusses how international trade is organized from export to trans-boundary transport to import. All evidence suggests that the transport sector is independent, may exercise market power and features strong economies of scale. We develop a model of a transport industry that operates...

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Geography, non-homotheticity, and industrialization : a quantitative analysis

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - 2012

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or agriculture is driven by comparative advantage and non-homothetic preferences. Countries are integrated through trade but trade is not costless and geographic position matters....

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