Papageorgiou, Chris; Perez-Sebastian, Fidel; Spatafora, … - 2019
We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies …: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows …