Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification / Richard E. Baldwin, Tadashi Ito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, Richard E.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ito, Tadashi.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14305.

NBER working paper series no. w14305

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Quality competition versus price competition goods

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.

Summary:

Based on the recent trade models of the Heterogeneous Firms Trade (HFT) model and the Quality Heterogeneous Firms Trade (QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of export goods are substantially different across countries at the same HS 6-digit code.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2008.