manufacturers is compared. Major export industries in Japan have higher productivity growth and lower pass-through coefficients than …Using domestic and export price data and a framework of markup over cost, pricing behavior of U.S. and Japanese … American exporters, who tend to price to domestic cost. Japanese firms seem to price discriminate between domestic, and export …

We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies …: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows …

This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of …

trade flows. Econometric estimates of export and import equations provide evidence that trade flows have indeed become …