The long and short (of) quality ladders

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1450-1476

  Khandelwal, Amit ^a  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPORT; HETEROGENEITY; MANUFACTURED EXPORT; MARKET SYSTEM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRADE PERFORMANCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955747850     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2010.00602.x     Document Type: Article

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