Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some? Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is wellestablished, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality tradeoff across the entire distribution. Using data from th...

this article has considered the volume and direction of iran’s trade using the gravity model. the major issue in this analysis is to explore why iran over or under-traded with the 76 countries relative to the predicted trade flows of the model. the study attempts to explore the reasons from the respect of both the model itself and iran’s trade structure. this is done by analysing the performanc...

Consider trade conducted via a platform, such as an online app store or a farmers market. The quality sellers choose for their products affects the surplus trade generates. Because the platform’s profit depends on that surplus, the platform can have an incentive to regulate quality. This is true even if quality is observable at time of purchase or if sellers can develop reputations concerning q...

On September 4, 2002, the SEC implemented a de minimis exemption to the trade-through rule for three active ETFs, allowing markets to execute trades at prices up to three cents worse than those posted elsewhere. Relaxing the trade-through rule does not worsen ETF market quality. Effective and realized spreads are essentially unchanged or slightly smaller post-event, and prices become slightly m...

Recent work demonstrates the importance of developing high quality output in order to compete in export markets and other recent studies verify the prevalence of fixed and ongoing trade costs while participating in those markets. I consider the joint choice of quality and export promotion costs when trade relationships are subject to temporary disputes. When transparency is low and macroeconomi...

Many regard corruption to be detrimental to international trade. Some, however, think that corruption greases commerce in case of low-quality institutions. Others argue that arbitrary corruption is more damaging to trade than predictable corruption. This is the first paper to test these hypotheses empirically with trade-related measures of corruption. It finds that in general, corruption is det...

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 o...

This paper investigates how the latency in a mobile network affect the quality of a highly demanding and sensitive application running on it. The application chosen is a bilateral teleoperation with a haptic input device, meaning a remotely controlled robot with force feedback. The latency of the two a 3Gand 4G Network were measured and simulated in application. To examine how the latency affec...

1 This paper is prepared for an internship program under the project of China Fishery Policy and WTO Accession/Implementation collaborated by the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS) & the Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL), Ottawa, Canada and financed by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The author wishes to acknowledge Wenguo Cai, a senior research associate at C...

Algorithms for crowdsourced tasks such as entity resolution, sorting, etc. have been subject to a variety of research work. So far, all of this work has focused on one specific problem respectively. In this paper, we want to focus on the bigger picture. More specifically, we want to show how it is possible to estimate the budget or the quality of an algorithm in a crowdsourcing environment wher...