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the set of imported goods and the quality to vary. This variety-, set-of-products-, and quality-adjusted import price … gains from quality. Using HS 07 (vegetables) as our benchmark group of products with unchanged quality, we find significant … gains from quality for Germany, France, Italy and the UK between 1995 and 2010. Although these results are not invariant to …
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the set of imported goods and the quality to vary. This variety-, set-of-products-, and quality-adjusted import price … gains from quality. Using HS 07 (vegetables) as our benchmark group of products with unchanged quality, we find significant … gains from quality for Germany, France, Italy and the UK between 1995 and 2010. Although these results are not invariant to …
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explains why, even if quality is a significant issue, production measures should not rely on the user’s changes of condition …. It should rather be based on supplied quality. The paper then describes and discusses two complementary ways to estimate … quality changes. …
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Since the pioneering work of Krugman (1980) economists try to quantify the welfare gains from an increase in traded variety. The seminal work of Feenstra (1994) and its application to the U.S. of Broda and Weinstein (2006) allowed this quantification for the first time using highly disaggregated...
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Findings from the literature suggest that previous estimates of the variety gains from trade are too small because of the imprecise measurement of the imported variety set under the Armington assumption. In this contribution, I use results from the literature on multi-product firms to obtain...
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