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raises the quality of final goods by improving matching of firms. The quality upgrading is decomposed as the short run effect …This paper analyzes trade between firms that are heterogeneous in product quality in a simple general equilibrium model … of a reduction in the quality gap among parts and components and the long run effect of intensified competition among …
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impact of foreign offshoring of intermediate inputs on the growing wage gap in U.S. manufacturing industries is larger than … previously estimated. Lastly, I show that quality of contracting environment and thickness of input supplier markets are …
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(quality). Data patterns observed in Belgian firm-product level exports by destination are congruent with the predictions and …
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The pattern of trade observed from firm-product-country data calls for a new generation of models. To address the unexplained variation in the data, we propose a new model of monopolistic competition where varieties enter preferences non-symmetrically, capturing both horizontal and vertical...
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The pattern of trade observed from firm-product-country data calls for a new generation of models. To address the unexplained variation in the data, we propose a new model of monopolistic competition where varieties enter preferences non-symmetrically, capturing both horizontal and vertical...
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(quality). Data patterns observed in Belgian firm–product level exports by destination are congruent with the predictions and …
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fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor … 2007, we provide empirical support for the factor proportions channel through which offshoring to labor-abundant countries …
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