Product standards and export quality: Micro evidence from China

Cui Hu and Faqin Lin

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 145, issue C, 274-277

Abstract: Using European Union’s decision on lighters on 11 May 2006 that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market as a natural experiment, this paper firstly examines the impact of product standards on export quality causally. We use China’s HS-8 digit product level trade data and triple difference approach to analyze whether the product standards causally improve the product quality. We get the answer yes.

Keywords: Product standards; Export quality; Triple difference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.06.034

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