Regional Heterogeneity and China’s International Trade: Sufficient Lumpiness or Not?

Regional Heterogeneity and China’s International Trade: Sufficient Lumpiness or Not?

ECO and Regional Trade

Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are very important factors in this re...

Product Quality, Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade∗

I explore variation in price and export status in industries where I can estimate product quality and technical efficiency separately. The empirical results show that prices are increasing in quality and decreasing in efficiency and that selection into exporting is driven mainly by quality. Firms export because they generate more demand for their products, not because they can produce at lower ...

Technical Appendix: Product Quality and Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade (Not For Publication)

Does lumpiness matter in an open economy? Studying international economics with regional data

This paper addresses the empirical question whether the regional distribution of production factors within countries is ever so uneven that it triggers specialization of production that makes regions produce different sets of goods at different factor prices. Due to the different welfare effects of trade policy in a country with regional specialization, this is an important question. In additio...