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Vertical Specialization and the Quality of Infrastructure
World Trade Organization - 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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205555
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433943
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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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Firm Size and the Intensive Margin of Import Demand
Blaum, Joaquin - 2018
We use French microdata to test an ubiquitous property of firm-based models of importing. When firm efficiency is factor neutral and input prices and qualities are common across firms, firm size should have no effect on expenditure shares on the different products and varieties sourced, holding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931163
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336935
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Patterns of Vertical Intra-Industry Trade Considering Quality Difference : S.Korea Case
Kang, Minsung - 2022
The simultaneous exports and imports within same industries is well known as the intra-industry trade (IIT). Since the pioneering empirical literatures of Balassa (1966)1) and Grubel and Lloyd (1975)2), bunch of empirical and theoretical papers studied this new paradigm of international trade...
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Technology and Technical Barriers to Trade in a Vertically Differentiated Market
Ryu, Han Eol; Sung, Yeolyong - 2023
This paper analyzes the economic effects of TBT under the existence of technological asymmetry between countries. It first defines TBTs and shows the current status and evolution of TBTs using descriptive measures. In addition, the paper also compares the technology levels of Korea to those of...
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The rise of vertical specialization trade
Bridgman, Benjamin - In: Vertical specialization and value-added trade, (pp. 1-19). 2011
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Vertical specialization and value-added trade
Davis, Arthur M. (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311861