Price as an Indicator for Quality in International Trade?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Price, Quality, and International Trade: Theory and Evidence
This paper explores the role of product quality in explaining observed price, production cost and trade patterns. Schott (2004) shows that for narrowly defined product the average unit value of goods imported by the US is increasing in the revenue, skill abundance, and capital intensity of the exporting country. These patterns are difficult to reconcile with a theory in which productivity’s uni...
متن کاملPrice as an Indicator of Quality: Implications for Utility and Demand Functions
Consumers often infer quality information from prices and rely on their reference prices. This paper incorporates both behavioral regularities nto the classic utility function. The analytical investigation reveals five qualitatively different types of consumers, three of which are relatively new o modeling literature. The authors test the model’s theoretical insights using a new experimental me...
متن کاملAn Analysis of International Outsourcing in Iran-China Trade Relations
Iran-China relations are deeply rooted in history and have been enhanced recently with bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy, arms sales, trade, political cooperation and cultural ties. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of international outsourcing in form of trading intermediate products on bilateral trade relations between Iran and China. As an empirical work, we h...
متن کاملSLOPE PROFILE MORPHOMETRY AS AN INDICATOR FOR SLOPE MOVEMENT
Two dimensional slope profile morphometric investigation in a part of the land failure prone Garhwal region of the Lesser Himalaya, Tehri district, U. P., India, indicates that the landslip morphology is closely related to the dominant movement processes active in this terrain. Technique developed for the morphometric analysis of landslips involves the use of five morphometric indices. Each ind...
متن کاملInstitutional Quality and International Trade
Institutions — quality of contract enforcement, property rights, shareholder protection, and the like — have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Yet trade theory has not considered the implications of institutional differences, beyond treating them simply as different technologies or taxes. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we propose a simple model of international t...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Economic Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1016-8737,1743-517X
DOI: 10.1080/10168737.2011.580580