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Vertical Specialization and the Quality of Infrastructure
World Trade Organization - 2003
interdependent, and the O-ring theory of production is such a theory. The paper first presents and modifies this model and then … to trade barriers and infrastructure quality and cost of infrastructural services. The relative importance of trade … barriers and various indicators of infrastructure vary between sectors. Vertical specialization in the electronics sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012883932
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Vertical specialization and the quality of infrastructure
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2004 - Manuscript date: December 2003
interdependent, and the O-ring theory of production is such a theory. The paper first presents and modifies this model and then … to trade barriers and infrastructure quality and cost of infrastructural services. The relative importance of trade … barriers and various indicators of infrastructure vary between sectors. Vertical specialization in the electronics sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205555
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Inside the White Box : Unpacking the Determinants of Quality and Vertical Specialization
Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021
This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245628
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Inside the white box : unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization
Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2021
This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433943
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Inside the white box : unpacking the determinants of quality and vertical specialization
Jaimovich, Esteban; Madzharova, Boryana; Merella, Vincenzo - 2020
This paper explores patterns of quality differentiation and specialization relying on model-level panel data of retail sales and prices of refrigerators across 23 countries in the European Union. Unlike customs data aggregated at the product category, typically used in the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533531
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Vertical Specialization, Tariff Shirking and Trade
Ma, Alyson - 2014
The core idea behind the paper is that trade policy matters for the organization of global value chains, a notion largely neglected by economists but which has important implications for our understanding of trade and the international transmission of trade policy shocks. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049282
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Patterns of Vertical Intra-Industry Trade Considering Quality Difference : S.Korea Case
Kang, Minsung - 2022
The simultaneous exports and imports within same industries is well known as the intra-industry trade (IIT). Since the pioneering empirical literatures of Balassa (1966)1) and Grubel and Lloyd (1975)2), bunch of empirical and theoretical papers studied this new paradigm of international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241145
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Vertical specialization and gains from trade
Alexander, Patrick D. - 2017
Multi-stage production is widely recognized as an important feature of the modern global economy. This feature has been incorporated into many state-of-the-art quantitative trade models, and has been shown to deliver significant additional gains from international trade. Meanwhile,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637447
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Vertical specialization, tariff shirking and trade
Ma, Alyson; Van Assche, Ari - 2014
The core idea behind the paper is that trade policy matters for the organization of global value chains, a notion largely neglected by economists but which has important implications for our understanding of trade and the international transmission of trade policy shocks. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336935
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Fragmented production : regionalization of trade?
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - 2004 - Manuscript date: August 2003
This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of … in low-cost countries will only have an incentive to upgrade quality if adequately efficient infrastructure, logistics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205552