Crinò, Rosario; Ogliari, Laura - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2014
Product quality plays a key role in economics, but differs markedly across countries and industries. What are the … determinants and implications of this pattern? In this paper, we test an explanation for the large heterogeneity in product quality … geographical and sectoral variation in product quality. We estimate the model using a novel data set, which contains proxies for …