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either limited or strong scope for quality differentiation. Using customs data for China during 2002-2006, we empirically …
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model to analyze the effects of national standards on the trade of agricultural products between China and the 64 Belt and … voluntary internationally harmonized standards. It is beneficial for China and the B&R countries to strengthen standards …
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-2010 transition periods for China's primary trade partners. We disentangle total intra-industry trade into vertical intra … estimations suggest that China's HIIT is more likely to emerge with countries that are similar than with those that are different …. Conversely, China's VIIT happens more with different rather than with similar countries. And in the intra-industry trade, the …
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In the last more and more consumers evince increasing interest in fair traded products. This trade concept is designed to help mainly producers of agricultural products to keep some basic social producing criteria. The different Fair-Trade-Organisations try to implement better work- and life...
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This paper studies whether credit constraints affect the decision of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) to upgrade the quality of their exported output with respect to the one sold domestically. We use a detailed firm-level data-set on Italian SMEs reporting information on output...
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Using quarterly data of 58 countries, this paper provides empirical evidence that mobile phone diffusion from 2007 to 2009 is positively influenced by international network effects. Direct and indirect network effects are a result of the international standadization of telecommunication...
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We provide the combination of the Asian automotive trade case study and the analysis of indicators that may potentially reflect product quality. We try to assess the relevance of different indicators (particularly, weighted unit value, number of export lines, market share, Grubel-Lloyd index and...
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This paper analyzes the role of product quality and labor efficiency in shaping the trade patterns and trade intensities within and across two groups of countries, the developed and richer North and the developing South. Taking prices as a proxy for quality, recent empirical literature...
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