Export Quality in Advanced and Developing Economies: Evidence from a New Data Set

This paper develops new estimates of export quality, based on bilateral data, which are far more extensive than previous efforts. The data cover 166 countries and more than 800 products over the period 1962–2014. The analysis finds that, within any given product line, export quality on average conve...

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Published inIMF economic review Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 421 - 451
Main Authors Henn, Christian, Papageorgiou, Chris, Romero, Jose Manuel, Spatafora, Nikola
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.06.2020
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. (Springer)
Palgrave Macmillan
Subjects
Capital Markets
Comparative analysis
Data quality
Developing countries
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Exports
Foreign investment
Free trade
Heterogeneity
Human capital
Industrial nations
Industrialized countries
International Economics
LDCs
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
Quality
Quality management
Research Article
Trade policy
United States
F14
L15
O14
O11
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Summary:This paper develops new estimates of export quality, based on bilateral data, which are far more extensive than previous efforts. The data cover 166 countries and more than 800 products over the period 1962–2014. The analysis finds that, within any given product line, export quality on average converges rapidly across countries. However, there is also significant cross-country heterogeneity in the growth rate of quality. Institutional quality, liberal trade policies, foreign direct investment inflows, and human capital all promote quality upgrading, although their impacts vary across sectors.
ISSN:2041-4161
2041-417X
DOI:10.1057/s41308-020-00110-8