| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23690 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23690 |
| On the Relationship Between Quality and Productivity: Evidence from China's Accession to the WTO | |
| Haichao Fan; Yao Amber Li; Stephen R. Yeaple | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-08-21 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper presents an analysis of the effect of China's entry into the WTO on the quality choices of Chinese exporters in terms of their outputs and their inputs. Using highly disaggregated firm-level data, we show that the quality upgrading made possible by China's tariff reductions was concentrated in the least productive Chinese exporters. These firms, which had been laggards in terms of quality prior to the tariff reduction, were the most aggressive in increasing the quality of their exports and their inputs and in redirecting their exports toward high income markets where demand for high quality goods is strong. Our empirical results are consistent with a simple model featuring scale effect and non-Hicks' neutral productivity that disproportionately affects the efficiency with which firms use intermediate inputs. This latter feature does not appear in workhorse models of firm heterogeneity and endogenous quality choice which provide a distorted view of the impact of trade liberalization on quality upgrading. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; Trade ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23690 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581363 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Haichao Fan,Yao Amber Li,Stephen R. Yeaple. On the Relationship Between Quality and Productivity: Evidence from China's Accession to the WTO. 2017. |
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