NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY SPECIALIZATION
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY SPECIALIZATION
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NBER 工作论文系列 质量专业化的决定因素
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2016
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Jonathan I. Dingel;Booth
越来越多的文献表明，高收入国家出口高质量的商品。有两种假说可以解释这种专业化，对福利、不平等和贸易政策有不同的影响。Fajgelbaum，Grossman，and Helpman（2011）正式提出了林德假说，即国内需求决定专业化模式，因此预测高收入地区出口高质量产品。因素比例模型还预测，技能丰富的高收入地区出口技能密集型高质量产品。先前的经验证据并没有将这些解释分开。我开发了一个模型，嵌套两个假设，并采用美国制造工厂的出货量和要素投入的微观数据，以量化这两种机制在美国城市的质量专业化的作用。国内市场需求解释了收入和质量之间的关系，就像要素使用的差异一样。艾先生丁格尔布斯商学院芝加哥大学5807 South Woodlawn Avenue芝加哥，IL 60637和NBER jdingel@chicagobooth.edu
A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade policy. Fajgelbaum, Grossman, and Helpman (2011) formalize the Linder hypothesis that home demand determines the pattern of specialization and therefore predict that high-income locations export high-quality products. The factor-proportions model also predicts that skillabundant, high-income locations export skill-intensive, high-quality products. Prior empirical evidence does not separate these explanations. I develop a model that nests both hypotheses and employ microdata on US manufacturing plants' shipments and factor inputs to quantify the two mechanisms' roles in quality specialization across US cities. Home-market demand explains as much of the relationship between income and quality as differences in factor usage. Jonathan I. Dingel Booth School of Business University of Chicago 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 and NBER jdingel@chicagobooth.edu