@techreport{NBERw14305,
 title = "Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification",
 author = "Richard E. Baldwin and Tadashi Ito",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "14305",
 year = "2008",
 month = "September",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w14305",
 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.},
}