主题：Quality and Gains From Trade
报告信息
主讲人 Yuting Chen Singapore Management University
主持人 张帆 副教授 纽约国际588888线路检测中心国际经贸学院
时 间 2018年10月19日下午 15:00—16:30
地 点 纽约国际588888线路检测中心松江校区SA301室
主讲人简介
陈雨婷，新加坡管理大学经济学博士在读，将于2019年取得博士学位。2013年获得英国诺丁汉大学硕士学位。2012年获得宁波诺丁汉学士学位。研究领域：异质性企业理论与国际贸易学，国际投资，目前多篇英文论文在审。
报告简介
In this paper, I study to what extent countries differ in their preferences for quality and their technologies of improving quality. The paper also quantifies the contribution of those differences to the differences in gains from trade acrosscountries. I extend a tractable trade model of endogenous quality choice of firms where competition affects the scope of quality differentiation. Istructurally estimate the model and discover that richer countries generally have larger valuation for quality. The quantification shows that countries'variations in quality preferences and technology add country's heterogeneity in market competitiveness. Subsequently, I simulate a 5% increase in trade barrier. If the quality channel is shut down, countries with higher quality preferences are more likely to have their loss from trade barrier underestimated.Finally, gains from a universal rise in quality preference are more unequalamong small economies since differences among large economies are alleviated by their broader scopes for quality differentiation.