Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia

Autores
Hallak, Juan Carlos; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. The first dimension is "process productivity", which is how we denote the standard concept of productivity as modeled in the literature. The second one is "product productivity", defined as firms´ ability to develop high-quality products spending small fixed outlays. The distinction between these two sources of productivity, together with the assumption that iceberg trade costs decrease with quality, deliver various conditional exporter premia as theoretical predictions. Conditional on size, exporters sell higher quality products, charge higher prices, pay higher input prices and higher wages, and use capital more intensively. Some of these predictions had already been documented in the empirical literature but lacked a theoretical framework for properly interpreting them. We conduct systematic tests of these predictions using manufacturing establishment data for India, the U.S., Chile, and Colombia, and find strong support for the model.
Fil: Hallak, Juan Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina
Fil: Sivadasan, Jagadeesh. University of Michigan; Estados Unidos
Materia
Productivity
Quality
Product
Process
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spelling Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premiaHallak, Juan CarlosSivadasan, JagadeeshProductivityQualityProductProcesshttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. The first dimension is "process productivity", which is how we denote the standard concept of productivity as modeled in the literature. The second one is "product productivity", defined as firms´ ability to develop high-quality products spending small fixed outlays. The distinction between these two sources of productivity, together with the assumption that iceberg trade costs decrease with quality, deliver various conditional exporter premia as theoretical predictions. Conditional on size, exporters sell higher quality products, charge higher prices, pay higher input prices and higher wages, and use capital more intensively. Some of these predictions had already been documented in the empirical literature but lacked a theoretical framework for properly interpreting them. We conduct systematic tests of these predictions using manufacturing establishment data for India, the U.S., Chile, and Colombia, and find strong support for the model.Fil: Hallak, Juan Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; ArgentinaFil: Sivadasan, Jagadeesh. University of Michigan; Estados UnidosElsevier2013-09info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/108696Hallak, Juan Carlos; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh; Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia; Elsevier; Journal of International Economics; 91; 1; 9-2013; 53-670022-1996CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022199613000500info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.05.001info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:58:34Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/108696instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:58:34.759CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
title Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
spellingShingle Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
Hallak, Juan Carlos
Productivity
Quality
Product
Process
title_short Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
title_full Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
title_fullStr Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
title_full_unstemmed Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
title_sort Product and process productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hallak, Juan Carlos
Sivadasan, Jagadeesh
author Hallak, Juan Carlos
author_facet Hallak, Juan Carlos
Sivadasan, Jagadeesh
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author2 Sivadasan, Jagadeesh
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Productivity
Quality
Product
Process
topic Productivity
Quality
Product
Process
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. The first dimension is "process productivity", which is how we denote the standard concept of productivity as modeled in the literature. The second one is "product productivity", defined as firms´ ability to develop high-quality products spending small fixed outlays. The distinction between these two sources of productivity, together with the assumption that iceberg trade costs decrease with quality, deliver various conditional exporter premia as theoretical predictions. Conditional on size, exporters sell higher quality products, charge higher prices, pay higher input prices and higher wages, and use capital more intensively. Some of these predictions had already been documented in the empirical literature but lacked a theoretical framework for properly interpreting them. We conduct systematic tests of these predictions using manufacturing establishment data for India, the U.S., Chile, and Colombia, and find strong support for the model.
Fil: Hallak, Juan Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Economía; Argentina
Fil: Sivadasan, Jagadeesh. University of Michigan; Estados Unidos
description We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. The first dimension is "process productivity", which is how we denote the standard concept of productivity as modeled in the literature. The second one is "product productivity", defined as firms´ ability to develop high-quality products spending small fixed outlays. The distinction between these two sources of productivity, together with the assumption that iceberg trade costs decrease with quality, deliver various conditional exporter premia as theoretical predictions. Conditional on size, exporters sell higher quality products, charge higher prices, pay higher input prices and higher wages, and use capital more intensively. Some of these predictions had already been documented in the empirical literature but lacked a theoretical framework for properly interpreting them. We conduct systematic tests of these predictions using manufacturing establishment data for India, the U.S., Chile, and Colombia, and find strong support for the model.
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