Quality competition versus price competition goods - An empirical classification

Richard Baldwin and Tadashi Ito ()

No 07-2008, IHEID Working Papers from Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Quality vs Price competition; heterogeneous firms trade model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2008-07-24, Revised 2008-08-30
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