Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality*

By J. Hallak, Peter K. Schott. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Acquisitions, markups, efficiency, and product quality: Evidence from India (2018, background): “3Variation in prices and product quality have indeed been found to be of similar importance as cost based advantages in explaining the performance of firms in international markets (e.g., Eckel et al., 2015; Hallak and Schott, 2011; Hallak and Sivadasan, 2013; Kugler and Verhoogen, 2012).”
Quality, Trade and the Moving Window: The Globalisation Process (2007, neutral): “Over the past few years, a number of authors have explored the role of quality in trade using CES models (for example, see Hallak and Schott (2005) ), while others have examined trade in non-CES models of the � monopolistic competition� kind (Melitz and Ottaviano, 2005).”
Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade (2011, background): “They purchase a homogeneous good as well as making a discrete choice of quality and brand of a differentiated product.”
Export Destinations and Input Prices (2014, background): “…level 19Table A3 shows that an analogous pattern holds for imports: within narrow product categories, imports from richer nations tend carry higher prices, in line with prior findings in the literature (Schott, 2004; Hummels and Klenow, 2005; Kugler and Verhoogen, 2009; Hallak and Schott, 2011).”
Market structure and exchange rate pass-through (2012, background): “Thus, adding measures of average country-specific quality such as the one developed in Hallak and Schott (2011) would not improve our results, as only average trade partner-specific qualities are reported in the literature.”
A Search Cost Perspective on Formation and Duration of Trade (2008, background): “Hallak and Schott (2005) estimate cross-country differences in product quality revealing trends not apparent in export prices alone.”
Nonhomotheticity and Bilateral Trade: Evidence and a Quantitative Explanation (2011, background): “An equilibrium is a set of wages {wi}i=1 and a set of labor allocations {{Liτ}Ni=1}Sτ=1 that satisfy the system of equations (18) and (19), where the terms Xniτ are given by equations (16) and (17).”
The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade (2012, background): “Similarly, Hallak & Schott (2011) estimate quality for a panel of 43 countries between 1989 and 2003.”
Trade and Prices with Heterogeneous Firms (2008, result): “(4)These results accord well with facts documented for US imports by Schott (2004), as well as work in progress by Hallak and Schott (2005) that emphasizes product quality differences as the prime determinant of cross country price differences.”