Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: HEID Working Paper ; No. 07/2008

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade
• Subject: quality vs price competition ; heterogeneous firms trade model ; Güter ; Export ; Wettbewerb ; Preis ; Produktqualität ; Messung ; Industriestaaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Baldwin, Richard E. ; Ito, Tadashi
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
• (where): Geneva
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/77406
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