Pricing to market, firm heterogeneity and the role of quality

Roberto Basile (), Sergio de Nardis and Alessandro Girardi

Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), 2012, vol. 148, issue 4, 595-615

Abstract: We build a pricing-to-market (PTM) model with firm heterogeneity, which allows for imperfect competition and market segmentation in the presence of flexible exchange rates, horizontal and vertical differentiation and different tastes of consumers in destination markets. We derive firm’s pricing behaviour in response to price and quality competition shocks. We show that there is PTM heterogeneity across firms if quality has a role. We empirically assess the main predictions of our theoretical framework on Italian firm-level data. We document that export-domestic price margins are significantly affected by price and quality competitiveness factors even controlling for foreign demand conditions, size, export intensity, destination markets and unobservables. Finally, we provide evidence of strong heterogeneity across firms in their reaction to price and quality competitiveness. Copyright Kiel Institute 2012

Keywords: Price setting; Quality competition; Firm heterogeneity; Ordered choice model; D21; D22; F10; F12; C23; C25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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