quality
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The transformative effects of US patents for Chinese exporters
Patents from recognised hubs confer benefits to foreign patent holders beyond market protection, such as valuable global signals of quality and credibility
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Incentivising production quality in cooperative agriculture: Evidence from Indian dairy cooperatives
Group incentives can lead agricultural cooperative managers to improve production quality, but increasing transparency around incentives can backfire
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Collective reputation in trade: Evidence from the Chinese dairy industry
A quality scandal that affected some Chinese dairy firms disrupted exports from all firms across the industry
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Is quality upgrading a motive for vertical integration?
Vertically integrating suppliers is a strategy firms use to improve product quality by ensuring higher-quality inputs
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Misperceived quality: Fertiliser in Tanzania
Evidence from Tanzania shows fertiliser quality is not the problem, rather it is farmers’ perceived belief of bad fertiliser quality that is
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How retail drug markets in poor countries develop
The entry of a new pharmacy chain in India led existing companies to both cut prices and raise drug quality
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Import competition and the quality of domestic goods
Lower tariffs promote quality upgrading of products close to the world quality frontier, but discourage quality upgrading for those far away from it