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标题：Quality Upgrading, Competition and Trade Policy: Evidence from the Agri-Food Sector
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作者：Curzi, Daniele ; Raimondi, Valentina ; Olper, Alessandro 等
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2014
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：This paper analyzes the extent to which the reduction of import tariffs ‒ as a measure of import competition ‒ affects the quality upgrading of the food products exported to the EU. This relationship is studied within a ‘distance to the frontier’ model (Aghion et al., 2005) who predicts a non-monotonic relation between competition and innovation. Quality is inferred from trade data using the Khandelwal (2010) method. The results show strong support for the existence of an non-monotonic relationship between competition and quality upgrading, with varieties close to the world frontier more likely to upgrade quality in response to an increase in import competition.
关键词：Quality Upgrading;Trade policy;Competition;Distance to the frontier;Food Industry