Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0

Author-Name: Sabrina Chancelier
Author-Workplace-Name: Centro de Investigación en Economía Teórica y Matemática Aplicada (EEyN), Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Title: El Rol de la Calidad en la Dirección del Comercio: Analizando el comportamiento de las empresas exportadoras

Abstract: The paper focuses on the relationship between quality and export destination. We present a general model indicating that when the constant elasticity of substitution utility function has non-homothetic preferences, if production costs meet certain assumptions, the quality increases with the intensity of preference for quality and specific transport costs while decreases or is unrelated to ad valorem transports costs. Then, we develop a case showing that firms offer higher quality to richer and more distant countries, as documented by empirical papers.

Classification-JEL: F10, F12

Keywords: Heterogeneous firms with endogenous quality, Alchian-Allen
effect, non-homothetic preferences.
Journal: Económica

Pages: 127-153
Volume: 61
Year: 2015
Month: January-December
File-URL: https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/Economica/article/view/5340/4370
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:akh:journl:600