International Prices and Endogenous Quality

By Robert C. Feenstra, John Romalis. 2014

533 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fce3a7cc862025335ac071f4e937b390ee69f187

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Estimating Trade Policy Effects with Structural Gravity (2016, unknown): “Finally, to tackle the problem of measurement errors, the World Trade Flows (WTF)37 database developed by Feenstra and Romalis (2014) omits observation where the c.”
On the Relationship between Quality and Productivity: Evidence from China's Accession to the WTO (2017, methodology): “Export unit values well capture export quality, while only a fraction of observed import unit value differences are attributed to import quality (Feenstra and Romalis, 2014).”
US exports and employment (2019, unknown): “Using equations (12) and (13), we can generate instruments for both the upstream and downstream exposure measures.”
The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms (2017, unknown): “At the SITC-4 level, Feenstra and Romalis (2014) estimate a higher median elasticity of 6.2 for 1984-2011.”
Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange, 1960–2018 (2021, methodology): “…assume that price differences of internationally traded goods are caused principally by quality differences, rather than differences in bargaining power; see Feenstra and Romalis 2014; Feenstra et al. 2015).2 We use the IMF’s (2019) Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) for data on exports.”
Verti-Zontal Differentiation in Export Markets (2013, unknown): “Also, the empirical identification of the demand parameters can then be used to strip price indices from quality and taste changes to get bett er estimates of GDP growth indicators as currently also pursued by Feenstra and Romalis (2012) who use a different model.”
Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2017, unknown): “Papers that infer quality in these ways include Verhoogen (2008), Khandelwal (2010), Hallak and Schott (2011), Manova and Zhang (2012), and Feenstra and Romalis (2014). survey data allows us to contribute to this literature by showing quality upgrading occurs, at least in part, through improvements…”
Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities (2013, background): “The Feenstra and Romalis (2014) approach is similar to mine in that the authors estimate the parameters of the underlying utility function and use these estimates to adjust prices for product quality.”