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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
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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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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The rise of vertical specialization trade
Bridgman, Benjamin - 2010
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Vertical specialization, international task fragmentation, and convergence
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2021
In this paper, we construct an elaborate general equilibrium model with a continuum of production fragments for an intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small...
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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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Beyond trading : knowledge spillovers and learning-by-exporting in global value chains
Graf, Holger; Mohamed, Hoda - 2023
Does exporting intermediate goods induce learning from importers? In this paper, we examine to what extent learning from German industries can be explained by knowledge spillovers, channeled through the export of intermediate goods. Our study is based on a sample of 27 German trade partners in...
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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016
According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...
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