Multinational exposure, export variety and price: Evidence from Chinese electronics exporters

Price Competition or Quality Competition? Evidence of Forest Products in Top Exporting Countries

“…Melitz (2003) proposed the theory of heterogeneous firms, arguing that firms compete with each other in terms of price and the most efficient firms can achieve increased competitiveness in distant markets at low prices [3]. Subsequently, Melitz and Ottaviana (2008), Bernard et al (2011) and other scholars further extended and confirmed the theory of firm heterogeneity [4][5][6]. On this basis, Panayiotis and Bardaka (2010) and Bernardina Algieri (2014) analyzed the impact of price and non-price factors on export performance [7,8].…”

“…Export prices are an important aspect of heterogeneous enterprise theory. Existing research has found that the main factors affecting export prices are productivity, product quality, distance to the export destination country, exchange rate and tariffs [6,9]. There are three measures of export prices in empirical analysis.…”

China’s Evolving Role in Global Production Networks: Implications for Trump’s Trade War

“…The analysis is motivated by a sizeable recent literature on the deepening of China's engagement in global production sharing. There is evidence coming from firm-level studies that firms engaged in final assembly in China have begun to procure inputs from domestic sources (Upward et al 2013;Yang and Hayakawa 2015;Yang and Tsou 2015;Kang and Shen 2016;Kee and Tang 2016;Kong and Kneller 2016). According to these studies, the process of industrial deepening has been underpinned by the relocation of manufacturing facilities to China by foreign component-producing firms to supply the rapidly expanding final assembly activities in China.…”