Between 1992 and 2002, the Japanese Import Price Index registered a decline of almost 9 percent and Japan entered a … period of deflation. We show that much of the correlation between import prices and domestic prices was due to formula biases … attributable to growth in the quality of Chinese exports and the increase in new products being exported by China …

markets and that charge higher export prices import more expensive inputs. Third, across destinations within a firm …This paper establishes six stylized facts about firms' export prices using detailed customs data on the universe of … each destination, have bigger worldwide sales, and enter more markets. Second, firms that export more, that enter more …

's producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the … effect of trade liberalization on export prices and its relation with product differentiation. Next, the paper develops a … that a reduction in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to …

The microdata underlying U.S. import and export price indexes exhibit frequent product turnover and highly rigid prices … "product replacement bias" and quantify its importance using U.S. microdata on import and export prices. We show that …, accounting for product replacement bias, long-run exchange rate "pass-through" into U.S. import and export price indexes is …

We develop a method for decomposing countries' observed export prices into quality versus quality …-adjusted-price components using information contained in their trade balances. Holding observed export prices constant, countries with surpluses …

-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …

Economists emphasize two channels through which import liberalization affects productivity, one operating between and … the other within firms. According to the former, import competition triggers market share reallocations between domestic … to 2002. First, in the long run, import liberalization lowers productivity in domestic industries through selection. This …