TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rodrik,Dani
TI  - Industrial Organization and Product Quality:  Evidence From South Korean and Taiwanese Exports
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2722
PY  - 1988
Y2  - September 1988
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2722
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2722.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Dani Rodrik
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-9454
Fax: 617/496-5747
E-Mail: dani_rodrik@harvard.edu
M1  - published as Dani Rodrik. "Industrial Organization and Product Quality: Evidence from South Korean and Taiwanese Exports," in Paul Krugman and Alasdair Smith, editors, "Empirical Studies of Strategic Trade Policy" University of Chicago Press (1994)

M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1989-02-01
AB  - The central focus of this paper is on the relationship between domestic market structure and export performance. It evaluates the hypothesis that more concentrated industrial sectors can achieve more easily the transition from standardized, labor-intensive manufactures to sophisticated, skill intensive products, as such industries are better able to cope with the inevitable reputational externalities involved in producing high-quality goods for foreign markets. South Korea and Taiwan provide a good test of the theory, as they have sharply different market structures. The results of the empirical analysis provide strong support for the hypothesis.
ER  -