 Multinational price premiumYing Ge, Huiwen Lai and Susan Chun Zhu () Journal of Development Economics, 2015, vol. 115, issue C, 181-199 Abstract: By exploring a rich data set that links international trade transactions to panel data of manufacturing firms from China during 2000–2006, we reveal new patterns of export prices across firms. We find that foreign firms charge about 28% higher prices than Chinese exporters after controls for firm productivity and product–destination–year fixed effects. We provide evidence that the multinational price premium is significantly correlated with the knowledge-based intangible assets within multinationals. The multinational price premium is substantially higher for firms with headquarters in more innovative countries and for firms that have technicians and managers sent from their parent companies. The price premium is even higher for majority- or wholly owned affiliates than for minority-owned affiliates. Our results imply that in addition to generating efficiency gains, multinationals can also enhance the capability of foreign affiliates to produce quality. Keywords: Export prices; Multinational firms; Technology transfer; Product quality (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:deveco:v:115:y:2015:i:c:p:181-199 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.02.002 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Development Economics is currently edited by M. R. Rosenzweig More articles in Journal of Development Economics from Elsevier |
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