Measuring the Intensity of Quality Competition in Industries

Karl Aiginger ()

Austrian Economic Quarterly, 2001, vol. 6, issue 2, pages 73-101

Abstract: High-wage countries can compete with low-wage competitors only by increasing productivity or by upgrading quality. Usually upgrading of quality is regarded as difficult to measure. The current study proposes different indicators to measure quality and applies these indicators to assess the position of European countries, the USA and Japan in quality competition.

Keywords: Measuring; the; Intensity; of; Quality; Competition; in; Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/jsp/index.jsp?fid=23923& ... anguage=2&language=2 Abstract (text/html)
http://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/servlet/wwa.upload.Downl ... TITIVENESS$_SHOW.HTM full text (text/html)
Payment required

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wfo:wquart:y:2001:i:2:p:73-101

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Austrian Economic Quarterly from WIFO
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Ilse Schulz ().