Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification

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  • Richard E. Baldwin
  • Tadashi Ito
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Based on the recent trade models of the Heterogeneous Firms Trade (HFT) model and the Quality Heterogeneous Firms Trade (QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of export goods are substantially different across countries at the same HS 6-digit code. © The Authors. All rights reserved. No part of this paper may be reproduced without the permission of the authors.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008