ISBN:
9781009128995
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (96 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Paralleltitel:
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DDC:
382.6091724
Kurzfassung:
Given the increasing sensitivity of buyers in the richer countries towards quality of goods they consume, low-quality exports largely constrain export-growth of the developing countries. This Element documents the attempts to estimate cross-country quality variations and reviews the demand and supply explanations for the low-quality phenomenon.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Export Quality and Income Distribution -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Export Quality: Measurement Issues and Cross-Country Estimates -- 2.1 Measuring Product Quality -- 2.2 Cross-Country Quality Dispersions -- 2.3 Asymmetric Quality Variations -- 3 Explaining the Low (Export) Quality Phenomenon: Theory and Empirics -- 3.1 Demand-Side Explanations -- 3.1.1 Income Disparities and Quality Variations: Partial Equilibrium Analysis -- 3.1.2 Quality Uncertainty, Asymmetric Information and the Lemons Problem -- 3.1.3 Within-Country Income Distribution and Quality Choice: General Equilibrium Analysis -- 3.2 Supply-Side Explanations: Technology, Factor Endowment and Cost of Quality -- 3.2.1 Monopoly, Patents and Under-Provision of Quality -- 3.2.2 Contestable Markets and the Cost of Reputation Building -- 3.2.3 Technology, Factor Endowment and Domestic Factor Cost -- 3.3 Concluding Remarks -- 4 Trade Policies, Income Redistribution and Export Quality -- 4.1 Trade Liberalisation Policies -- 4.1.1 Tariff Reduction on Final Import Competing Good -- 4.1.2 Tariff Reduction on Imported Input -- 4.2 Exchange Rate Policies -- 4.3 Cross-Country Factor Movements -- 4.4 Direct Export Quality Promotion Subsidies -- 4.4.1 Quality-Content Production Subsidy -- 4.4.2 Input Subsidies -- 4.5 Role of Industrial Policy under Asymmetric Information -- 4.6 Concluding Remarks -- 5 Quality Variations, Income Redistribution and Employment -- 5.1 Trade Liberalisation, Quality Variations and Wage Inequality -- 5.2 Devaluation, Quality Variations and Wage Inequality -- 5.3 Uniform Minimum Wage Laws, Quality Variations and Unemployment -- 5.4 Concluding Remarks -- 6 Domestic Demand, Market Imperfection and Urban Unemployment -- 6.1 Domestic Consumption of Quality-Differentiated Export Goods -- 6.2 Monopoly Production.
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