Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77406 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
HEID Working Paper No. 07/2008
Publisher: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
quality vs price competition
heterogeneous firms trade model
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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