دانلود مقاله ISI انگلیسی شماره 40408
ترجمه فارسی عنوان مقاله

تجارت، جغرافیای اقتصادی و انتخاب کیفیت محصول

عنوان انگلیسی
Trade, economic geography and the choice of product quality ☆
کد مقاله سال انتشار تعداد صفحات مقاله انگلیسی
40408 2015 10 صفحه PDF
منبع

Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)

Journal : Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 54, September 2015, Pages 18–27

ترجمه کلمات کلیدی
رقابت انحصاری - کیفیت درون زا - جغرافیای اقتصادی
کلمات کلیدی انگلیسی
Monopolistic competition; Endogenous quality; Economic geography
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چکیده انگلیسی

The present paper studies the effect of the choice of product quality on trade and location of firms. We discuss a model where consumers have preferences for the quality of a set of differentiated varieties. Firms do not only develop and sell manufacturing varieties in a monopolistic competitive market but also determine the quality level of their varieties by investing in research and development. We explore the price and quality equilibrium properties when firms are immobile. We then consider a footloose capital model where capital is allocated to the manufacturing firms in the region offering the highest return. We show that the larger region produces varieties of higher quality and that the quality gap increases with larger asymmetries in region sizes and with larger trade costs. Finally, the home market effect is mitigated when firms choose their product quality.