TY  - JOUR
AU  - Baldwin,Richard E.
AU  - Ito,Tadashi
TI  - Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14305
PY  - 2008
Y2  - September 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14305
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14305.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard Baldwin
Cigale 2
1010 Lausanne
SWITZERLAND
Tel: 41-22-908-5900
E-Mail: rbaldwin@cepr.org

Tadashi Ito
11 a Ave de la Paix
Geneva 1202
E-Mail: tadashi.ito@graduateinstitute.ch
AB  - 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.
ER  -