Is China climbing up the quality ladder? Estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database
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- Gabor Pula & Daniel Santabárbara, 2012. "Is china climbing up the quality ladder?," Working Papers 1209, Banco de España.
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Keywords
Chinese exports; COMEXT database; discrete choice model; global production networks; quality ladder; vertical product differentiation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F1 - International Economics - - Trade
- F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
- F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2011-04-02 (China)
- NEP-DCM-2011-04-02 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-EEC-2011-04-02 (European Economics)
- NEP-INT-2011-04-02 (International Trade)
- NEP-TRA-2011-04-02 (Transition Economics)
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