extension of these same techniques to assist with adjustments for quality differences. The use of additional procedures for …

disaggregation, it shows that the CEE-8 made an impressive shift in product quality and in the technological intensity of exports … analysis strongly suggests that, when trading in international markets, countries benefit from higher product quality. However …

for higher quality goods. We test the proposed theory using a highly disaggregated Argentinean firm-level wine export … 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 pricing-to-market and to a smaller response of export volumes to a real depreciation …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data … set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality …

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 … for changes in product quality, and calibrate it to generate predictions about export volumes. Unlike previous literature …

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 … quality growth rates. Within any given product line, quality converges both conditionally and unconditionally to the world …

admissions in Denmark and full-population tax data. We evaluate the quality of treatment based on its ability to mitigate the … labor market consequences of a given diagnosis and propose a new measure of hospital quality, the "Adjusted Earning Losses …

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 this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is …