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Quality, Trade, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Chen, Natalie - 2014

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived by exporters decreases with a real depreciation and with quality, leading to more...

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Quality, trade, and exchange rate pass-through

Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2014

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What Explains Germany's Rebounding Export Market Share?

Joutz, Frederick L. - 2007

Germany''s export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study explores four explanations and evaluates their empirical contributions: (i) improved cost competitiveness, (ii) ties to fast growing trading partners, (iii) increased demand for...

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Quality upgrading and export performance in the Asian growth miracle

Papageorgiou, Chris; Perez-Sebastian, Fidel; Spatafora, … - 2019

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...

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Export Quality in Developing Countries

Henn, Christian - 2013

This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products over 1962–2010. Quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early stages of development, with quality convergence largely completed as a country reaches upper...

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Quality and the great trade collapse

Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2016

We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...

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Markups, quality, and trade costs

Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2020

We investigate theoretically and empirically how exporters adjust their markups across destinations depending on bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per unit, our model predicts that markups rise with...

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Export competitiveness : fuel price nexus in developing countries : real or false concern?

Kpodar, Kangni; Fabrizio, Stefania; Eklou, Kodjovi - 2019

This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing … in domestic gasoline or diesel price adversely affects real non-fuel export growth, but only in the short run as the … impact phases out within two years after the shock. The results also suggest that the negative effect of fuel price increase …

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Protection for Free? : The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff suspensions

Mishra, Prachi - 2010

This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. We develop a model in which firms influence the government by transmitting information about the value of protection, via costless messages...

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Input Shortages in Mixed Economies : An Application to Indian Manufacturing Industries

Sahay, Ratna - 1991

Widespread shortages in key inputs are common in mixed economies of developing countries. These shortages appear to occur at the same time that relatively high rates of capacity underutilization in manufacturing industries are observed. This paper develops a simple model which explains the...

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