Recent empirical studies argue that traditional trade models ignore product quality, usually leading to bias in price … quantifies the effect of quality on Brazilian imports. For that, we estimate import demand equations, including a proxy for the … quality of imported goods, according to pooled data panel. Results show that price affects the demand for Brazilian imports …

, we relax their assumption of unchanged quality over time and apply this index to export prices of the ten CESEE EU Member … prices (unit values) increased stronger in CESEE10 countries as compared with their competitors, the average quality of their …

price developments for changes in varieties of imported products. We relax their assumption of unchanged quality over time …) increased more strongly in the CESEE-10 countries as compared to their competitors, the average quality of their goods increased …

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 …

, associated to market similarities in geography and culture, and quality upgrading costs, associated to market similarities in …

to shocks and has major implications for several performance measures, such as productivity and markups. This paper …

model. By using direct measures of quality, we can recover estimates of parameters from a Melitz-based model of … heterogeneous firms. We then regress averages of the quality, price, and quantity shipped to a country on measures of its … attractiveness and entry costs. Champagne exhibits quality-sorting: more attractive markets tend to have lower average qualities and …

international trade. However, the economic literature so far has solely focused on the case in which quality trade stems from … differences between countries. No studies investigate the role of quality trade between similar economies. This paper first … model yields three main predictions for trade between similar economies. First, exported goods are of higher quality than …

changes in non-price factors (quality in a broad sense) for a set of nine large emerging economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile …